The South Had Plans To Take Over All Of Central America, Cuba, And The rest Of The Caribbean If They Won The Civil War

I love thinking about things like this. Moments in history that we all take for granted or in many cases don't even know they happened, but if they went the other direction our fundamental reality hundreds of years later would be completely different. That is ABSOLUTELY the case with six battles we talked about in Dogwalk. Just these butterfly effect moments in time. 

Imagine how terrible the world would've been if the South would've won the Civil War. Eventually, the industrial revolution would've taken hold in the South in a more concrete way. If they had free labor for agriculture and industry through the fucking evils of slavery they probably would've been able to do their own version of manifest destiny and executed the "Golden Circle" plan without that much resistance. Look at this theoretical I found on reddit

Cotton and tobacco in the south. Sugar in the Caribbean. Then 40 years after the Civil War the Confederacy has all of the oil found in Mexico and Texas. It makes them one of the richest, most powerful, and most evil empires ever to exist. There is no Spanish-American War if that happens. What does WWI look like? Probably a pretty good chance that it is fought in this hemisphere as well. What does WWII look like? Does the United States even get involved? Is that fought over here too? Feels like the slave master racists of South would be aligned with Hitler. Then the entire 20th century is just nothing, but brutal and evil cultures dominating every corner of the globe. Do people flee to Australia as the last shining city on a hill or did that fall in WWII to Japan? Absolutely insane to think about how important that battle could've been to the history of the world. Glad our guys won. Glad I live now in this reality than back then. Back then seems terrible.

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