Reply To: Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America?

Strega wrote:

We would have no way of knowing what the south would be like if they’d successfully seceded all those years ago. Certainly the north would also have been affected.

There is a very long series of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove premised on the South winning the battle of Antietam (the officer who dropped the plans that (in fact) ended up in Union hands, allowing the victor, was, in the alternate “universe,” rescued by one of his soldiers noticing it, and picking the packet up and giving it to him).

[SPOILERS AHEAD!]

In this series, there’s another North-South war in 1881, with England and France aiding the south and the Union getting its ass kicked. The US then starts to align itself with Germany. Spoiling for revenge, WWI becomes England, France, and the Confederacy on one side, the US, Germany, and Austria-Hungary on the other. The US wins, occupies Canada and parts of the south.

WWII is being set up, with an embittered south and France playing the role of Nazi Germany. I haven’t read those books because they were never issued in mass market paperback.

It would have been a VERY unpleasant timeline to live in, with North America being war torn, as well as Europe.