| Woulda, shoulda, coulda.. The facts remain. The south had to be dragged into the 19th century by a horrible civil war. It had to be dragged into the 20th through the horrible Jim Crow era that followed. It's currently proving it's going to have to be dragged into the 21st century as well. Southern states, with an exception or two, soak up more Federal tax dollars than they take in, year after dreary year.
And I think these facts support my premise of not having the war could have led to a better outcome.
I think a more healthy speculation would be, what if we had just allowed the south to secede, and be DONE with them? Let them keep their slavery-based plantations and let every slave know, if they get north, they'll be free. I think they'd be even more retarded than they are NOW, but, at least they wouldn't be OUR problem.
Well, you and I agree about the secession part and leaving them alone. I think, eventually, when slavery became a losing economic proposition, there would have been some sort of getting together again that would have benefitted both sides--maybe even a reunification.
I've never been a big alternative history fan.
It can't change the past, but possibly can help us to address analogous situations going forward. | |
