Statebuilding in the CSA

Here's an odd thought about getting a more progressive CSA.

If you believe that interstate conflict builds state apparatus, and leads to liberalization at home to build up domestic support, then is there an argument that the CSA would care more about its black population than OTL's south?
 
Isn't interstate conflict generally going to lead to reaction at home, not liberalization? In a TL where civil rights for African-Americans is associated with a hostile foreign country and party that would dismember the Confederate States if they could (on top of all the economic factors to resist change) I don't think the Confederacy is going to be more progressive on civil rights.
 
Isn't interstate conflict generally going to lead to reaction at home, not liberalization? In a TL where civil rights for African-Americans is associated with a hostile foreign country and party that would dismember the Confederate States if they could (on top of all the economic factors to resist change) I don't think the Confederacy is going to be more progressive on civil rights.

I'm not at all sure that civil rights for African-Americans would be associated with the USA, or at least not once they had eliminated slavery.

It's conceivable that the USA would fall into that role, with blacks still migrating north to work in Chicago et al, and criticism of the CSA becoming a cultural habit, sure. But with very small black populations and a great deal of hostility to them, I could easily imagine the country going in other directions.
 
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