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As a companion to a thread on the economy of a vicorious confederacy in the Civil War, how does this effect the US economy? Is there, as Turtledove suggests, a depression-like period afterwards? is the US more industrialised as a result? Does this effect or prevent the recovery of the Bison? Is the US a more blue collar or white collar nation as a result? How does this effect politics, without a large, mainly conservative, southern voting block in elections? Does the US later effecively turn the Confederacy into a banana republic? Do US-based oil companies control the oil in texas?
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