What do you think the world would look like today if the Confederacy had won the US Civil War?

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answer:Counterfactuals, whee! Well, that would have been a victory for the plantation economy over the industrial economy…And decentralized government over a federal system. Which means that the Confederate States of America probably would not have become a major economic power, or at least not so entangled in the world economic system…Which means that 20th century world history would likely have been completely different.

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