In any case, timber, agriculture, and the discovery of massive oil deposits in Texas and Oklahoma would have seen the South's fortunes rise as they have today...but probably much sooner.
Maybe when the oil was discovered, Texas and Oklahoma would have succeeded from the CSA to keep from sharing.
Maybe so. I'd be fine if they did it right now. We really don't need the rest of you.
Which is why I keep saying that a weak confederacy consisting of strong states with a history of Secession would have been doomed from the start. Texas may well have been the first to pull out.
Or the central government, realizing this fact of life, would have been far more judicious and given much less reason for any state to secede.
Consider the Confederacy to be more like the EU than the United States.
