xhonzi said:

I don't know... do you think the U.S. and the C.S. would have been able to affect WWI and WWII the same way? I have an inkling that the U.S. wouldn't be here at all if the South had won the Civil War.

Very good point, while we cannot perceive what could have been in history, I firmly believe that the type of government the Confederacy was advocating would have won out the country over and the Confederacy would have joined back with the US after the US embraced the idea of a less powerful central government. But that is mere speculation and hope more than anything.

Don't get me wrong, I love the United States and honor it daily. However, I just do not think that the strong central government idea was what our forefathers intended. I am pretty sure that Thomas Jefferson would be less than impressed with how we are today, with government infecting every part of our daily lives. I just believe that the Confederacy was more in tune with the the intentions of our founders. I happen to think that a southern victory would have brought that to the attention of the rest of the country and showed what kind of tyrant Lincoln was and hopefully have ousted him and went back to the roots of the United States.