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So how would industry fair in a post-war North America had the South managed a victory? I can't imagine the Gilded Age is quite as gilded with two seperate, presumably capitalist (and presumably enemy) nations competing with each other. So I want to ask about a few industry in particular.

1.) Oil Industry: Spindletop was a boon for Rockefeller, but imagine it being in a totally seperate nation? On one end, Rockefeller keeps his dominance over the US oil market, but on the other, a new Southern oil industry means a foreign country competing for dominance in the blossiming global market. Does JDR still make his billion? Are any new super-rich oil tycaoons coming out of the Southern market? Any oil wars in the future? What would the price lf oil look like? Etc.

2.) Arms Manufacturing: This industry takes on a whole new importance in this scenario. I mean, there's an enemy nation literally right across the border! Winchester, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Colt are all Northern based companies, so the South has got A LOT of catching up to do. How do they (the South) handle said catching up? And how fast does war tech advance in this ATL? I imagine a lot of tech would show up faster with the constant need to gain an advantage over the enemy nation. Things like tanks, warplanes, battleships and machine guns.

3.) Railroad Industry: So the Vanderbuilts are like the richest people on the planet at this time. And in OTL, they got a hell of a lot richer. Does that still happen? I imagine not. Presumably, a Southern railroad company has to emerge to connect the East and West sides of the nations. Maybe another already established moneyman like Wade Hampton makes a new company, a la Corneillius Vanderbuilt? Would the companies ever work with each other on international railroads? And so on.

4.) Farming: So my thinking here goes like this. The vast majority of the Union's agricultural land just up and left, and the midwest land is filled with enemy tribes and possibly enemy faiths (LDS). The North seems to have the same "catching up" probably here as the south does in most of these other industries. And defeating the peoples on the replacement land may be a lot harder with half the country missing and hostile. How is the North going to handle this?

Other industries that come to mind are education, steel, automotive, medical and banking.

So what is the fate of industry in this new, divided world?
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