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Slater
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Considering the subject matter, I doubt if this particular movie will see the light of day.
<bleeding_heart>
Sounds interesting, but is it going to be another over-hyped let down?
Lochness_hunter
If that movie gets let out in the south it will be a hit. I saw a figure (i will see if i can find it) that said in the south there are 2 confederate flags to every 1 american flag.
Slater
Well, we all know how Southerners feel about the "War of Northern Aggression" tongue.gif
Lochness_hunter
Yea, but remember how close the south came to winning that war. In the civil war 400 thousand northerns died while only 200 thousand southerns died. That is a scary figure, but i don't think it would have been like that the movie suggest.
JennRose
QUOTE(Lochness_hunter @ Jan 1 2005, 12:21 PM)
Yea, but remember how close the south came to winning that war. In the civil war 400 thousand northerns died while only 200 thousand southerns died. That is a scary figure, but i don't think it would have been like that the movie suggest.
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The south didn't exactly "come close" to winning...more Northerners died because they had more troops. (But I don't think it was as dramatic as a 2:1.) The South was out-manned and out-equipped; hard to win a war when an agricultural society fights an industrialized one. The South was dying slowly through the war, and if it hadn't been for Sherman's March, the death would have even been more drawn-out and agonizing.
Lochness_hunter
The only reson the number was as drastic as 2-1 was because of many northern blunders and the south had better generals.

For instance the south barly had a navy, but they sunk 41 northern ships by setting sea mines in the path of the ship. The south also used the frist successful land mines, killing thousands of Northerns. Also the north made many blunders. In 2 battles the north sent there troops into death traps. Once over a brige heavly gaurded by rebels, adn again in a crater they made.

And remember many experts belive the battle of gettysburg was only won by the north, because of the Southern General JEB. Stuart not making it there in time, and a pickit fence.

A good saying which many southerns know is "if we just had another bag of rocks to throw at the yankees we would have won". Which i am glad the north won the war. It bettered america as a whole.
Erikl
What I find un-realistic though is CS of America allying itself with Nazi Germany.
This is a popular notion that seems to be common in any alternate-history book about the south winning the war, which is IMO very anti-Southerner.
You must remember that both the people of the south, and those of the north, were Americans. They shared similar ideas regarding democracy.
Sure, the north was anti-slavery and all, but other than that, they were both Americans. And racism in America was far from dead even long after the war was ended. Actually, I think the 1950s were probably the worst years to be an Afro-American in whole of the the US - north and south.
So, just as the south was democratic as the north was, and as racist as the north was tongue.gif, I think that even if the south would have won, America would have never allied itself with the Nazis.
Most likely American economy would have been backwarded because of agriculture conservatism, and social rights would have took much longer time to thrive than the real America, but overall - I think they US would have stayed the same. Maybe just slowed in it's development a bit.
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