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For the Confederate States of America to survive, it would have required the nation to modernize and liberalize--neither of which would have been possible under the constitution that it had, I believe. Furthermore, there is the fact that slave states are by definition police states, so it would have been paranoid about its borders, so it would have been gung-ho about wars it really had no chance of winning. (The Confederate government was already planning a war with Mexico--no joke.) Really, the only way I see the Confederacy surviving would be for them to have a Constitutional Convention, like the one that ended up replacing the Articles of Confederation with, well, the Constitution.

Barring that, though, how does the Confederacy implode? When? For which reasons of the many, many possible ones?
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