I'm interested in the global political ramifications that a CSA victory could have. As I've read much before many fighting for the union during the ACW thought that they wore fighting for the image of democracy itself and as Lincoln said in his Gettysburg address the war was to make sure "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
As I've read from other source most other countries where heading fro forms of oligarchy and if the Union had not succeeded in reincorporating the southern states then modern democratic governments like those now in Europe would not have been so prevalent.
Also I personally spoke with one historian on the effects that an independent CSA might have on things like the Canadian Confederation and he said that such an event may convince inhabitants of British north America to remain independent. This then makes me wonder about the unification of other countries that occurred after the ACW in OTL such as Germany.
So I'd like to open this thread to discuss the extremes that may occur in ATLs in regards to the global effects an independent CSA may have on the general opinions held of democracy, nationalism, and large/centralized governemnts.