re: On this date 155 years ago....

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but if our southern region wanted to fight a Civil War today then I’d be all for it. It really wouldn’t be regions fighting each other but more of ideologies. The Conservatives vs The Liberals

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Just wow.

The war was about states rights. The Yankees came down here and took all our rights away

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If the south won the war the history books would have been much different. History is written and skewed by the victors. The south would have ended slavery in 10 years.

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I don't believe this for a minute.

Read the Mississippi Declaration of Secession

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Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

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There's no way the South turns away from this argument in as little as 10 years. After all, less than 10 years before the war, even northern Democrats Douglas and Pierce were willing to accept the expansion of slavery with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Had the South won, it is much more likely that slavery would have become even more brutal, since slaves would have had a much better guarantee of freedom by crossing a national border at the Ohio River/Mason-Dixon Line. Legally, it would likely have existed at least until the expansion of the industrial revolution into farming that happened with the introduction of tractors from 1915 to 1930.

JMHO.

The best case scenerio for the south would have been for the union to permit the southern states to secede and become allies. The industrial north could have provided the south with the industrial tools needed to end the profitability of slavery.

At that point, there would have been a border war, because the south would force freed slaves to migrate to the north, who would have used force to prevent them from entering.

Eta: I agree with Sherman on one thing. The fact the war lasted as long as it did was due to the leadership and fighting spirit of the confederate forces. The only way they could win is for the north to lose their resolve.