The other day I saw someone on Youtube argue that the US would've been better off letting the Confederacy exist in the South. His argument? Society would've progressed much faster in most other areas of the country without the cultural values of the South stemming the progressive tide of reforms. This person argued that if the Confederacy was left as it is the rest of the US would've had passed Civil Rights in the 1930's and have a national health care system in the 1950's.
I thought it was a most interesting take on the Confederacy, quite different than what I hear most American "liberals" say about the Civil War. What do you guys think?
And how many black people would there have been in the North for Civil Rights to have really mattered?
