In an argument I had with Snake about how easy it would be to integrate the CSA back into the United States after an extended period of independence, he said the CSA and USA would both define new national identities for themselves after a successful Confederate secession.
I can easily imagine the Confederates claiming to the true heirs of Founding Fathers like Jefferson, Washington, etc. and claiming the federal government had lost its way and grown tyrannical. Heck, the CS national emblem featured the image of George Washington on it.
What kind of identity would the North develop? I'm thinking a successful Confederate secession would be something that promotes bitterness and desire for revenge rather than "we're the true heirs of the Revolution and good riddance." It would be massive blow to the image of an ever-growing, ever-improving free nation.
I really can't think of any no-war-of-revenge Northern identity appearing unless the U.S. gets really socialist and concludes that the secession of the CSA was an important step on the historical dialectic by reducing "reactionary" influence on the United States.
(And even then, there'd be the desire to spread the blessings of liberty/the revolution/etc to the oppressed blacks and the manipulated poor whites of the CSA.)
I can easily imagine the Confederates claiming to the true heirs of Founding Fathers like Jefferson, Washington, etc. and claiming the federal government had lost its way and grown tyrannical. Heck, the CS national emblem featured the image of George Washington on it.
What kind of identity would the North develop? I'm thinking a successful Confederate secession would be something that promotes bitterness and desire for revenge rather than "we're the true heirs of the Revolution and good riddance." It would be massive blow to the image of an ever-growing, ever-improving free nation.
I really can't think of any no-war-of-revenge Northern identity appearing unless the U.S. gets really socialist and concludes that the secession of the CSA was an important step on the historical dialectic by reducing "reactionary" influence on the United States.
(And even then, there'd be the desire to spread the blessings of liberty/the revolution/etc to the oppressed blacks and the manipulated poor whites of the CSA.)
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