What if Charles Lindbergh were elected President in 1940?Įxplanation: Philip Roth’s bestselling novel, The Plot Against America (2002), gives us an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh, trans-Atlantic pilot and all-American hero, becomes the Republican presidential candidate in 1940, defeating the incumbent Franklin Roosevelt. After fighting together in two world wars, the three nations are reunified in 1960 – a century after South Carolina’s secession had led to the Civil War in the first place. Under international pressure, the Southern states gradually abolish slavery. Texas, unhappy with the new arrangement, declares its independence in 1878. The USA (or what’s left of it) moves its capital to Columbus, Ohio - now called Columbia - but can no longer afford to buy Alaska from the Russians. The Southern forces annex Washington, DC - renaming it the District of Dixie. What if the South won the Civil War?Įffect: America becomes one nation again… in 1960.Įxplanation: In a 1960 article published in Look magazine, author and Civil War buff MacKinlay Kantor envisioned a history in which the Confederate forces won the Civil War in 1863, forcing the despised President Lincoln into exile. Here are some of their intriguing conclusions. Alternate history, long popular with fiction writers, has also been explored by historians and journalists.
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