re: #27 Dr Lizardo

The Confederacy, if it had been successful in gaining its independence through force of arms, wouldn’t have lasted all that long in my opinion. There was too much internal strife, and a lack of cohesion at its “national” level, that would have ultimately doomed the entire endeavor to failure.

I have to agree. One of the ironies of the CSA is Davis faced a lot of heat for being too centralized.I think eventually some states would have broken off from the CSA over inevitable disagreements and hell perhaps even some regions within states since after all Eastern Tennessee was unionist territory as were parts of Northern Alabama.