If the Confederacy is democratic what would it's people feel about secession in the year 1961? What about in 2011? Winning the war would make it far more difficult to successfully peddle falsehoods like the lost cause, so what happens should public opinion on slavery change?
MLK used the term "promissory note" to refer to the constitution and the declaration of independence, and the civil rights movement was not anti American for the most part. Would the political left be explicitly anti Confederate considering the country was literally founded on a racial caste system? Would the political right endorse the ideology the country was founded on, or would they try skirting the question with the equivalent of holocaust denial on a national scale? Its hard to belive that the reactionary southern aristocracy would allow it to evolve into a normal western conservative party. It's even harder to believe that anybody could be nationalistic or call themselves a "proud condeferate" without endorsing the beliefs of it's founders.
It looks like a surviving Confederacy would doomed to suffer from instability and a perpetual identify crisis. An authoritarian regime seems to be the only thing that could stop the obvious uncomfortable questions from being asked.
MLK used the term "promissory note" to refer to the constitution and the declaration of independence, and the civil rights movement was not anti American for the most part. Would the political left be explicitly anti Confederate considering the country was literally founded on a racial caste system? Would the political right endorse the ideology the country was founded on, or would they try skirting the question with the equivalent of holocaust denial on a national scale? Its hard to belive that the reactionary southern aristocracy would allow it to evolve into a normal western conservative party. It's even harder to believe that anybody could be nationalistic or call themselves a "proud condeferate" without endorsing the beliefs of it's founders.
It looks like a surviving Confederacy would doomed to suffer from instability and a perpetual identify crisis. An authoritarian regime seems to be the only thing that could stop the obvious uncomfortable questions from being asked.