Originally Posted by LeroyBeans
Originally Posted by deflave

Had the south won the war they "might" look like Mexico today.


No "might" or "maybe" about it. They'd have been worse.


There were more millionaires in Mississippi than New York prior to 1865.
The South would have prospered had it remained free from the Federal Empire tyranny. Think Switzerland, Sweden, or Rhodesia prior to Mugabe


Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.