>>> cbcox at ilstu.edu 01/10/01 12:13PM >>>
Of course looking back at everything from the present and from a global perspective, the world would be better off had the Confederacy won, thus fragmenting the U.S. and permanently subordinating it to British imperialism.
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CB: Is it certain that if the Confederacy had won, that the U.S. would have been fragmented ? The "Confederacy" might have become a centralized state, with the northern region subordinated to the southern region, like a sort of Russian empire.
The Confederacy was not dedicated to confederation or states' rights on principle, but as a means to perpetuate productive relations of slave labor. The Confederates weren't anarchists.