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What if the southern states, instead of through individual acts of secession, organize the Confederacy and a declaration of independence.

The POD can be any time after 1850, and it is all 11 Confederate states plus Kentucky that join in this declaration.

Perhaps they start planning out the CSA when Lincoln announces his plan to run for election, and start to carefully buy industry and factory parts to create their own industry.

What happens?
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