Over 150 years ago, the United States fought the bloodiest war in her history against herself as much as
3% of the population of the country died
Fighting that war and one of the two sides that fought it was the Confederate states of America
The Confederacy lost the war and was vanquished from history
But what if today for whatever reason the confederacy re-emerged as an independent country again?
What would the confederacy of today actually look like to begin with? The same 11 states that were part of the old confederacy
would be part of this new one as well, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia
The confederate population of today would be over
104 million people which is fascinating when you consider that the population of the confederacy in
1851 was just over 9 million people over 11 times less than it would be today
Slavery was of course a central element of the old confederacy
39% of the population in 1861 were slaves which means that the free population was
Really only a little over five and a half million people
Slavery like this in the Modern world though is absolutely unthinkable and completely unnecessary
As a modern confederacy would be much more industrialized and urbanized than its past self was the most powerful and influential
confederate state in 1861 was Virginia which was home to the capital city of Richmond located just
155 kilometres away from Washington DC
the most populous city back
Then was new Orleans with a population of only 160 9,000 people the least influential states, then were Florida home to
140,000 people which interestingly was less than the population of New Orleans was at the time and
Texas which was home to a population of just six hundred four thousand people the confederacy of today however would be wildly different
Virginia would be only the fifth most populous state while Texas and Florida would be the most populous and most powerful states
Texas especially would dominate the Modern confederacy
Houston would be the largest city in the country
Instead of new Orleans and six out of ten of the largest cities in the country would all be located
Inside of Texas while the others would be scattered around a few other states the capital city would likely become either
Austin or tallahassee in Florida going to the power of those states inside of the country if the
Confederacy ever came back into existence however
It would almost certainly be an immediate conflict with the remainder of the United States
So how would the two sides look compared with one another the confederate population while higher than it was in
1861 would still have less than half the population of the rest of the United States at over
217 million people the Confederate GDP would be five point zero seven nine Trillion us dollars
the third highest in the world
But the remaining united states would still have an economy over twice as large at Thirteen point Forty nine Trillion us dollars
Making the United States still after losing all the confederate territory the world's most
Powerful economy the military budget of the Confederacy would also be the third highest in the world at
161 point two billion u.s. Dollars, but it would be no match for the remaining united States military's budget which would dwarf it at
450 billion us dollars the actual military sizes however would be much more comparable than they were in 1861
assuming that all of the soldiers of each stage returned home and didn't defect the
Confederacy would start with a military size of 1 million one hundred fifty-three thousand soldiers
While the remaining united states would have a military size of 1 million two hundred Eleven
thousand Soldiers just slightly larger than the confederates in
1861 However the Odds were much more in favor of the Union who had
698 thousand Soldiers at the Peak of the war compared to only
360,000 confederate Soldiers done with all things being considered though a modern confederacy would be a major global power with the third largest
Economy and third most powerful military just like it was in
1861 However the Confederacy would be
significantly weaker than the remaining United States
The two sides would have a similar size military to start off with but the union could drop significantly
more soldiers later in the war since it would have more than double the population of the
Confederacy the Union Army would also be much better equipped owing to a drastically larger budget and
Economy than the confederacy would have which means that in the event of another civil war the union would once again have
More Advantages and be the likely winner of any conflict
Please leave your comments below about how you think this scenario would play out if it were to actually ever
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