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If the South had won the Revolutionary War they would have fought on the side of the Nazis in World War II, do you think we still would have beat them or would the Axis forces have been able to sue

for peace and Europe and everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line would be run by the Nazis? 

Posted - July 22, 2016

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  • 46117

    If they won the war they would not have fought on the side of any Nazis.  You know little of the South if you think most of them treated their slaves like concentration camp victims.  They needed them miserable perhaps, and perhaps not.  I think they wanted them under control and they wanted them available for work.

    The Nazis wanted to eliminate.  Not control.  WIPE OUT.  There would be no possible rationale why the South would ally with FERINERS.

    No way. 

    As to the rest of your question, well, I lost the argument because we have Nazis in America.  What am I thinking.  They are already HERE. 

     

      July 22, 2016 9:09 PM MDT
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  • 3934

    Had the South won the Civil War, it still would have been on the wrong side of history. The overwhelming majority of Confederate wealth was slaves, and slaves were not a material asset in the direction war was evolving. Had the South forced the Union to back down, I suspect the Union would have instituted a policy of "containment" upon the Confederacy until it either sued for reunification, or the Union reinvaded to annex the Confederacy.

    The chances of the South being able to maintain its independence as an agrarian slave-based economy during the rapid industrialization of the late-19th and earth 20th centuries were remote. How a period of Confederate independence followed by US reunification would have influenced European politics from 1863-1945 is difficult to predict.

      July 22, 2016 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    The South fought in the Civil War, about 85 years after the Revolutionary War. Where did you learn history?
      July 23, 2016 12:16 AM MDT
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  • 2657

    They said about. To get technical, the Civil War was fought 78 - 82 years after the Revolutionary War was over or 86 - 90 years after the Revolutionary War started.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

    The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

    The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865.

      July 23, 2016 1:36 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Which is why I said "about". Are you that anal retentive? What's your point?
      July 23, 2016 6:44 AM MDT
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  • 2657

    Oops, sorry. For some unknown reason, I thought you were quoting the asker but obviously you were not. My bad, sorry.

      July 23, 2016 7:22 AM MDT
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  • 258

    The South DID win the Revolutionary war, the one of 1775-1783. The southern colonies of Georgia,South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland were on the same side as the northern colonies of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Collectively they won.

      July 23, 2016 7:22 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    OK, no biggie.
      July 23, 2016 7:37 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    But there was not yet an entity called the Confederate States of America, which is what the South means in this context, so you're just splitting hairs.
      July 23, 2016 7:40 AM MDT
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  • 53524
    Lol, you almost had me there for a second, but then I went back and reread it twice more.

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      July 23, 2016 7:43 AM MDT
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  • "Are you that anal retentive?", said the grammar Nazi.

      July 23, 2016 7:51 AM MDT
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  • I feel there's a tongue in cheek joke here but I cannot comprehend it. Is my intellect going down the drain!?!?!
      July 23, 2016 8:51 AM MDT
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  • 53524
    You should have stayed married to me . . .
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      July 23, 2016 9:25 AM MDT
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  • 3934

    Ratio of replies which ACTUALLY DEALT WITH THE QUESTION versus replies which picked upon the fact the person asking said "Revolutionary War" when he obviously (from context) meant "US Civil War":

    2 responsive: 14 nitpicking (now 15 with this answer)

    Good going, guys!

      July 23, 2016 12:30 PM MDT
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  • 1264

    You mean the "Civil war"  I don't agree, that's hogwash, lol.

      July 24, 2016 2:25 AM MDT
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