WI: South-dominated US wins against a secessionist North?

So there's been cases like DoD where the South ends up dominant in the US, but the North ends up going its own way. What would happen if a South-dominated USA ends up keeping the North in the Union through Force? I imagine you'd still get years of Southron domination, maybe the Golden Circle happens, but I think slavery is bound to have been phased out sooner or later, the latest being the early 20th Century.

Would the North have a 'North will rise again' type of Lost Causer culture that the South has OTL? Would the Gilded Age be replaced with what is essentially a Democrat one-party state?
 
How does a rural, backwards region dominate an urban, modern one? It is hard to see how an economy based almost solely on cotton and tobacco is going to beat a highly urbanized one.
 
You either need a fundimentally different political and military structures in place that basically gut the Militia/armed citizendry or even States system, in which case the US isent recognizable, or population and economic patterns different enough so that the North and South aren't recognizable. Otherwise, Yankeeland will be whipping them till there name is Tobby.

Either way, the North will suck up occupation attention so colonial expansion won't be an option
 
I don't foresee Southern political culture being amendable to the concept of keeping an Anti-Slavery New England by force in the Union.
 
How does a rural, backwards region dominate an urban, modern one? It is hard to see how an economy based almost solely on cotton and tobacco is going to beat a highly urbanized one.
And little to no foreign support for a government that fights to continue the institution of slavery. Why the British and French could not support it when the overwhelming majority of their populations did not support it. Thus the South never got any foreign recognition as an independent country.
 
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Luckily the South has General Alexander Stevens Beauregard to lead them in conquering the North.

It may be possible if by 'North' you were referring to just Vermont or Maine.

But if the portion of the North were small enough and the South had the English and French backing them it could be possible

Although it may be more likely the Europeans back the North since they are anti-slavery.

With numbers on their side perhaps there is another rebellion in 20 years or a mass exodus to Canada or the West.
 
Yeah, I don't mean the secession of the entire North, I mean only a few hardline abolitionist states. Like DoD, I'd have an early PoD here, maybe like the early 1800s to pull this off. I don't think a southern-dominated US would keep slavery for so long, especially not if it had the North. It'll stay for most of the 19th Century, I agree, but a Dixie Union is not the same as the Confederacy, which was literally a nation built on the idea of maintaining slavery.
 
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