ninebucks
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Again I'm no expert on southern American history but beyond the Mason-Dixon line was hardly an industrial powerhouse was it?
Because the government in Washington favoured developing the North, to the detriment of the South. The Civil War was fought by the CSA so that they might be free to diversify their economy at a pace decided by their own voters.
My personal beliefs of what a Confederate-win TL would look like are quite different from a lot of others'. I imagine that an independent CSA would make abolishing slavery and modernising its agricultural system its top priority, (to gain internal food security, to placate its huge Black population and to remove Abolitionism as a motive for a Northern invasion).
The second generation of Confederate leaders would be committed industrialists and urbanists, they'd encourage investment and skilled immigration from abroad while creating model cities of harmonious ethnic co-existance, (the fact that post-Reconstruction Southerners saw Blacks as a Northern Fifth Column cannot be understated as a cause for OTL Southern racism IMHO, its what turned the ignorant casual racism of the pre-War period into the maniacal genocidalism of the KKK and the totalitarian nastiness of Segregation - in a TL where Blacks are not viewed as traitors to the South, but rather as a valued part of it, (a victorious CSA would have had to have recruited a huge number of Black soldiers if it was to win in the first place), racial integration has as good a chance of taking off as in any other first world nation).
By the third generation, (early 20th Century), the CSA will be as developed as the USA and will be more than ready to enact serious political reforms.
By the fourth generation, the CSA will be ready to elect its first Black president, (or prime minister or whatever, its not definite that the CSA will keep its original War-time constitution for so long). By this time the CSA will be a very different place to the US, its politics will be much more socially orientated, the government will see itself as the protector of social cohesion, and will not favour economic development over that goal. The CSA will have a welfare state more comparable to OTL Europe than OTL America.