“Governor, if I had foreseen the use Yankees designed to make of their victory, there would have been NO surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; No, Sir, not by me! Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand!”
General Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas, 1870

It was a peaceful April day at Appomattox. The sun was shining, the birds were singing - and General Grant was surrendering. Faced with overwhelming odds by an army who could muster all the resources of a great agricultural nation, the Yanks were quietly signing their parole passes in an orderly but resentful fashion. The South had won this great fratricidal conflict and now, 125 years later, things are different. How?
1. The former United States are broken up into four unique countries, each serving the economic and political interests of their regions. There are countries......

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Title: If The South Had Won
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