Civil War

[ZACTAK]

Hey guys, I have a rather serious question, although this is going to start out sort of strange because I am basing my question off of a cartoon.

Alright, so I was watching Family Guy the other night on the cartoon network, and the family had to move down south for the witness protection program. They went to a reenactment of the civil war, and they made it so the Confederates won the civil war. I was just wondering how you all think people who believe this in real life would explain why the US is the way it is today if the Confederates won. Because you have to know there are people out there who believe this.

 

[Lokisdottir]

We'd be a much smaller country, and slavery would have taken much longer to end, if it ever ended at all.

 

[crazyfingers]

I was just wondering how you all think people who believe this in real life would explain why the US is the way it is today if the Confederates won. Because you have to know there are people out there who believe this.

Having trouble understanding this sentence.

 

[12volt_man]

Alright, so I was watching Family Guy the other night on the cartoon network, and the family had to move down south for the witness protection program. They went to a reenactment of the civil war, and they made it so the Confederates won the civil war. I was just wondering how you all think people who believe this in real life would explain why the US is the way it is today if the Confederates won. Because you have to know there are people out there who believe this.

Alabama is about as Confederate as it gets (for you public school students out there, Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy) and I honestly don't know anyone who believes that the South won.

 

[SnowBear]

Author Harry Turtledove wrote an entire series of novels based on the premise that the south won the civil war.



He carried the series (so far) up to the second world war where for the third time the United Staes of Merica and the Confederate States of America are at war. One of the better parts of the plot is when Louis Armstrong defects to the United States and brings with him chilling evidence of the Confederate "population reductions" (genocide) of African-Americans.

 

[Seeking...]

I read Harry Turtledove (loved it), but don't agree with it.

I think slavery would have taken longer to end. It would have ended piecemeal, state by state, and by vote - not executive order. That said - I believe the integration of Blacks would have happened more smoothly and with less civil upheaval.

If the Confederates won - they did a really bad job on those history books...

 

[hernyaccent]

If that were true I know someone would own me today.