I don't know... I grew up in the bloodiest battlefield area of the Civil War, and to a lot of people around there it's definitely not a different world. To many of them the war isn't over.
Given the current situation I'd guess it would be essentially the former Union states trying to secede from a US effectively controlled by the former Confederacy. And the Union states produce an outsize chunk of the economic productivity and tax base of the US, but the former Confederacy supplies much of the military, and has most of the guns (and the military would also be federally controlled). So the dominant South might be faced with the realization that, as much as they hate the Yankees, they can't let them leave lest they drop into permanent Third World status, and force might actually become attractive. On the other hand, control of the federal budget would make bribes more possible.
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Re: hey Matt
Date: 2006-09-30 10:33 pm (UTC)Given the current situation I'd guess it would be essentially the former Union states trying to secede from a US effectively controlled by the former Confederacy. And the Union states produce an outsize chunk of the economic productivity and tax base of the US, but the former Confederacy supplies much of the military, and has most of the guns (and the military would also be federally controlled). So the dominant South might be faced with the realization that, as much as they hate the Yankees, they can't let them leave lest they drop into permanent Third World status, and force might actually become attractive. On the other hand, control of the federal budget would make bribes more possible.