What's something positive that we CAN say about confederates?

>>3292140
You're seriously underestimating the importance of the cotton industry to the South. Mississippi and Louisiana used to be the richest states in the Union.
King Cotton wasn't just a meme, Britain would delight in propping up a country hostile to the US, Europeans were just too busy stuffing around in Mexico.

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>>3292140

Six million European Jews and countless millions of Eastern European Slavs would still be alive if they had won because it would have prevented US intervention in WW1 and thus stopped the rise of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

>>3292170

That's not something we can say about the confederates, it's something we could have said in your imaginary scenario.

>>3292140
They valued honor, chivalry, and self-restraint.

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>>3292166
All the unexpected Yank spergout did was cause a short increase in cotton prices, to the benefit of the south's competition.

>US intervention in WW1 caused the rise of the USSR

What did he mean by this?

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>>3292183

This

>>3292224

The Soviet Union doesn't rise to power in the Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove because the outcome of WW1 is significantly altered. Unfortunately both the United and Confederate States wind up turning into analogs of the Third Reich and Nazi Germany.

>>3292236
I'll be sure to refer to Turtledove for my accurate what-ifs

>>3292170
Woah.