Board Thread:New on Alternative History/@comment-72.185.4.15-20130303025616/@comment-6884305-20130309153355

Hmm. I see how a smaller Confederacy, especially without a Virginia, for instance, would be much more vulnerable. However, a U.S. with slavery lasting much longer? That is almost as interesting as having two Americas.

So, under the USA without a 13, 14, 15th amendment, we have greater states rights, I imagine.

Would slavery have "died on the vine"? If it did, I bet we would still have had some sort of Apartheid or Jim Crow system, but it might have extended into the far west, as well as the deep South.

If slavery didn't die -- there would have been a lot of friction with the free labor forces: unions and the like.

I am still looking for a way for a Douglas victory to leave some change in the U.S. that would have an impact on the 20th century. For instance, an earlier intervention in World War I, for instance -- before Russia crumbled.