If the Confederates had survived

If the Confederate States had survived, we would have a Confederate States of America that would be larger than the original United States of America.  If they had not fired on Fort Sumter, they might have avoided the Civil War.

If the western territories had been able to determine if they are slave or free, the agricultural territories would have chosen to be slave states. Lincoln thought this would be true and he was right.

Eventually, they would have converted to using illegal migrants to work the harvests and replaced manual labor with machines, but slavery might have lasted until it became unprofitable.

Having 2 countries occupying the same continent would have caused problems between the Confederate States and the United States. It would have made us more vulnerable to foreign meddling and foreign attacks. We wouldn’t have been a single nation with 2 oceans protecting our continent.

The fault lies with the Confederates. They were within their constitutional rights to secede, but it was a mistake. If it had been decided by a vote of the citizens in the South rather than the corrupt legislatures, the secession would have not occurred. These legislatures were controlled by their wealthy plantation owners, not the voting citizens.

Not much has changed. The Georgia legislature is for sale to the highest bidders. They are Demo-Publicans. They take turns running as Republicans and Democrats and don’t allow outsiders to get elected. Most Georgians are actually real Americans who would like a more American group of Republicans to vote for.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader