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BaldBiker said:
Because we were an isolationist country. People in the U.S. wanted Europe to solve their own problems. Also we were less than a generation removed from the Spanish American War and other smaller conflicts.
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Too bad we couldn't recapture that isolationist sentiment before Korea or Vietnam but by then the warmongers had already smoked the crack that was defense contracts.
 
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Here's a what if? The 7 Deep South states - SC, FL, GA, AL, MS, LA, and TX - secede when Lincoln is elected. In this scenario the North decides to let them go their ow way, which means Lincoln doesn't call for 75000 troops to put down what he considered a rebellion, which further means TN, AR, VA, and NC don't secede. What then? What does the immediate future look like for North America, and by 'immediate future', let's say the remainder of the 19th century.
 
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Crazy Ivan said:
Here's a what if? The 7 Deep South states - SC, FL, GA, AL, MS, LA, and TX - secede when Lincoln is elected. In this scenario the North decides to let them go their ow way, which means Lincoln doesn't call for 75000 troops to put down what he considered a rebellion, which further means TN, AR, VA, and NC don't secede. What then? What does the immediate future look like for North America, and by 'immediate future', let's say the remainder of the 19th century.
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Depends on if anyone did business with them. England had just gotten rid of slavery so the US might’ve pressured them to stop trade with the south. Economic warfare likely breaks the south and causes them to come crawling back in 20ish years. Then it depends on how those states are treated once they rejoin. because the south still hasn’t recovered from the civil war and “reconstruction”
 
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BaldBiker said:
Because we were an isolationist country. People in the U.S. wanted Europe to solve their own problems. Also we were less than a generation removed from the Spanish American War and other smaller conflicts.
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Also consider that we had, from afar, been watching European nations fight with each other essentially non-stop since before the founding. It probably took a while for the US to be convinced (at least politically) that this particular conflict was any different than all the others.
 
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