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I disagree.
Surprise!
The United States would certainly have continued to exist and thrive.
A man who looses his legs in an auto accident may continue to exist and perhaps even thrive, but he would in no way be the man he once was. Neither would the United States.
This idea that a successful secession by the southern states would have destroyed the republic is unsupported by the facts.
And I see no facts that support the theory the "United States would certainly have continued to exist and thrive."
Now the United States would not have been the same as it was before the war,
Ah! Uncertainty in the face of the unknown, an idea we seem to share on this topic.
certainly, but there was no avoiding that either way.
All we are left with is the results of history.
The Confederacy was destroyed, the United States was preserved, slavery was abolished and we still struggle with the results of that history, as one nation and one people.
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