Save your Dixie cups, the South shall rise again!

Probably not. The might have won in the 1860s but after that the gap in terms of population and industrial capacity was widening pretty much constantly. The earlier the Civil War the better things would go for the South. Perhaps if the New England states had seceded in the War of 1812 leaving the South the dominant block in the USA.

Maybe the US could have fallen apart given a worse Great Depression and severe incompetence at Federal level leading to a multi-polar North America with a 'New Confederacy' amongst the successor states (I used this in the eWhoniverse) but I think it pretty doubtful.
 
I used to work with this idiot who was complaining once about the improper education his young daughter was getting at school. To wit, she had been taught that the North won the Civil War, when in (his) reality, it is still going on. He's a former marine, and my nickname for him was Marine One, or M1 for short.
 
hgc said:
I used to work with this idiot who was complaining once about the improper education his young daughter was getting at school. To wit, she had been taught that the North won the Civil War, when in (his) reality, it is still going on. He's a former marine, and my nickname for him was Marine One, or M1 for short.
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You nicknamed him after a helicopter?

Cleon said:
Fun fact: Dixie Cups are originally from Boston, Mass.
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And "Dixie" was written by a dude from Ohio.
 
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My understanding is that a lot of the South is actually sinking due to rising ocean levels. So for it to rise again it will need scuba gear.

I know this is already a problem in low lying areas in Louisiana and in Florida. A bit ironic to me that many Southern politicians don't accept the evidence, and would rather call it something else ("oceanic redistribution" "novel coastal town creation" or something like that).
 
Polaris said:
You nicknamed him after a helicopter?
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Let's just say I took that famous helicopter designation as inspiration to mock his absurd militariness. He used to commute to work here from another state. When he had a massive project coming due, after many months and many dollars spent with a stable full of consultants, he announced he was going to spend a week at home strategizing or something like that. I thought of him as a Company commander who had to head back to Battalion HQ for some unknown reason at the moment his men were about to attack their objective. He was cashiered.
 
The South, in 1861, had about as much chance of winning as Japan in 1941. Nil. It just took a while for the inevitable to take effect. Given the heavily conservative bias of the military today, and the Southern bias of basing, that might not be true today. Except it was also that way in 1861. Now as then, the South has the generals, the North has the money.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
I would have thought that the withdrawal of the Union troops would have been a good excuse to start things up again.
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But no real military capability or organisation. Plus the troops could return pretty quickly and end the second attempt.

Something in the early 1930s or 1950s might be more plausible.
 
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