The Confederate States of America, An Alternate History: 1865-2020

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Civil War historians have asked if the South could have won the Civil War (or at least fought to a stalemate) since 1866. If they would have won, then what then? What would a divided states of America have looked like? Would a USA and a CSA have a happy peace and maintain a cooperative co-existence, like North and South Dakota, or maintain a cold war that threatened to go hot at any moment, like North and South Korea?

In this episode, we look at an alternate timeline of the Confederate States of America, whether emancipation would have happened, which foreign alliances would be forged, and how the two Americas would react to World War Two and the rise of Hitler. Suffice it to say, in the infinite timelines that exist, there is a large number that includes the CSA, and nearly all of them are bad.

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0:00.0	The History of North America podcast is a sweeping historical saga of the United States,
0:09.4	Canada, and Mexico from their deep origins to our present epoch.
0:14.2	Join me, Mark Vinet, on this exciting, fascinating epic journey through time, focusing on the compelling,
0:20.8	wonderful, and tragic stories of North America's inhabitants, heroes, villains, leaders,
0:27.2	environment, and geography.
0:29.5	I invite you to come along for the ride.
0:34.5	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, the unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,
0:41.0	Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.
0:47.7	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
0:52.7	I'm a big fan of looking at alternative historical questions.
0:56.1	What if the Nazis had one world or two?
0:57.9	That's the most common one, but other ones like, what if the Roman Empire hadn't fallen in the West?
1:03.8	What if somebody else had discovered the new world before Europe?
1:06.6	China, almost likely candidate, but the Ottoman Empire could have been in the running.
1:10.7	They had a good navy too.
1:12.4	What if Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had never been born?
1:15.0	How would that have affected Middle Eastern history?
1:17.8	Those are a number of alternate history questions, and I've covered things like these in the podcast.
1:23.0	Another one that's super common, it's probably the second most common behind what if Nazi Germany had one world or two,
1:30.4	is what if the Confederacy had won the Civil War?
1:35.0	Listener Tom White posed this question to me to see how things would have turned out if the Confederacy had won
1:41.2	and been able to maintain their independence.
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