Reply #39: exactly

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I wonder why they didn't explore that possibility? It almost happened. Lincoln was anticipating losing and getting ready to turn over power to McClellan and the Democrats until the tide turned on the battlefield. The Democrats would have made peace with the CSA and who knows what would have happened.

I'm curious how they explain how a Southern takeover of the North might have went down. That's highly implausible. I have to imagine that it would have involved a British and French alliance with the CSA (which almost happened as a result of the Trent Affair), but even a Southern victory under that scenario would have almost certainly resulted in two states (USA and CSA), not one (CSA).

As far as possible CSA allegiances in WWII, who knows? Who knows if the CSA would have survived that long as a slave holding state if it had won the war? And they may have opposed the Nazi's for other pragmatic reasons that would have trumped any racist ideological affinity.