Implications of southern victory in alternate universe

[Clarence Potter]

So i was checking out a site called "alternate history.com" the other day. They had some good "timelines" and what not. But i noticed that it seems most on there think if the south won(CSA)that it would be a banana republic doomed to playing second fiddle to the USA or breaking up through balkinization.

Having thought more on this i could understand some of their reasoning.

But the more i read into their threads the more i realized they were moralizing the concept of southern victory(slavery,interracial marriage,etc)

They would litterly shout anyone down who thought that maybe the south could be a successful nation.

So my question to you phorites would be:could the south be a viable nation if it won the civil war?

[Jimbo Gomez]

Slavery was an awful institute from the POV of the poor white class. Such economies offer very little opportunities for the people who normally go for the unschooled jobs. You'd have had a state, controlled by a clicque of wealthy slaver landowners, in perpetual social conflict with its white underclass, and probably afraid of slave revolts. It'd have been viable, but it wouldn't have thrived. Also, it'd probably have been involved in a new war with the North a few decades later, due to the latter's imperialism. They'd have been fighting a war with a socialluu homogenous, industrialized nation, with a far larger population. Imagine such a conflict in an early 20th century setting, it'd be a North American WW1. The end result would probably have been a unified USA again, a few decades later. Just my two cents.

[Felix the Cat]

Mexico would have become a French colony, and would presumably have supported the Confederacy in return for cheap cotton. A Second Civil War would probably have involved France.