Would the USA be better today if we had just let the South secede?

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142. Okay fair enough

I suppose we can go back and forth like this for quite some time but getting getting back to the original issue of whether the South should have been allowed to secede from the Union, I would say no because of two possibilities. First possibility is that we might have ended up with an ally of a nation that was an adversary. Secondly if secession would have succeeded, there would have been a good possibility that the Civil War would have eventually taken place anyway, only with more advanced and destructive weapons at hand. It is what it is and what we need to do is to make sure that the Democratic trend continues even if it is long after we are gone. Too many good people down here to write them off. Carry the burden. It will pay off for future generations in the end . Thanks for the conversation.