Board Thread:New on Alternative History/@comment-72.185.4.15-20130303025616/@comment-32656-20130310085517

Should have worded that better - there would not have been such an amendment passed at the same time as otl - it'd have taken longer, but still happened. Same goes for all those other ones.

"State's rights" is a concept that really does not, nor did it ever, exist. It's a "concept" that Confederate apologists try to convince the rest of the planet that the ACW was about - not true whatsoever, of course. Slavery was the cause, without question.

Slavery was more or less dying by the time of the ACW. Only in areas of the Deep South was it viable anymore - the Upper South, in many ways, served as "breeding farms." Nor was it remotely an option in the west - just not profitable in nay way, shape, or form.

..."Jim Crow" was in place through the entire country, just in two mildly different forms.

There isn't a way for him to win. For that matter, if he did become president, then WWI as we know it doesn't happen.