Oh ya, we all know what great economies North Korea and Pakistan have....
Yes, the "Confederacy" and not the "south." Its just easier to use the phrase
The south won more battles than the North, and frankly its amazing the North led by King Lincoln was able to get anything done. The Confederacy still had a chance to win up until the 1864 Presidential Election.
I think your forgetting the thousands and thousands of free blacks and slaves that fought and died for the Confederate States of America of their own accord. And your talking about massacres the Confederates did? Try the tens of thousands of civilians murdered in cold blood by union troops. Or the 13,000 American citizens put in prison because they opposed Lincoln. Or the hundreds of Newspapers shut down because they were also anti-Lincoln. Or all the blacks that were put into the Union Army at gunpoint. Or the millions of lives that were ruined because the Union Army burned down everything in sight.
That's precisely the point I'm making. Viable state does not mean a state that works well.
No, it's cheaper and inaccurate.
In Virginia, you mean. Elsewhere they had one major victory, Chickamauga, the rest was a dreary litany of Confederate infighting and crowning moments of awesome for the US Army as it developed the mobility, firepower, and converging columns doctrine used in all subsequent wars. Confederate armies were not so great as mythmaking would have it, and General Grant, much as it might pain you to hear it was Mount Olympus to Lee's pgymy perched on Mount Atlas.
There were no such soldiers, the Confederacy raised one such set of troops at New Orleans and never even considered using them to actually fight, and the proposal to raise and arm slaves raised before the start of the 1864 campaigns was squelched until 1890. There is but a single true massacre of Confederate whites attributed to Union soldiers and that was due to a former Tsarist General working for General Buell who brought the Rodinia's bloodsoaked way of war to US soil.
By contrast there's Olustee, Fort Pillow, the Crater, three massacres that are well-known and several others less so as they were in the Trans-Mississippi theater. Those blacks were not forced into the US Army at gunpoint, they volunteered and fought Johnny Reb harder than white Billy Yanks did.
Sorry to spoil your Neo-Confederate reverie, but that society's dead and buried and long may it rot. I think after 150 years we can concede that the Yankees were right, slavery is wrong, that 500,000 white and black Southerners fought in US blue, and even that Grant was the military genius of the 19th Century USA.