Absolutely, redfish. That is exactly where I stand.
My feeling is that if indeed the United States pols wanted to register their disgust, politically, with the Confederate States - as hypocritical as such would have been - they could easily and effectively have done so via peaceful but strict trade restrictions; even a complete embargo of indefinite duration. Then again, with a long shared border, that would have been difficult to police effectively.
And, as a fledgling, agricultural nation, my hypothesis is that the C.S.A. would have had a terribly volatile, cyclical economy that would have made having to export goods from Europe economically painful and perhaps unviable. As such, without a bloody war and the evisceration of the U.S. Constitution, the C.S.A. might have reconciled with, and perhaps rejoined, the U.S.A. within fifty years.
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