There's a lot of historical truth to this - the founding documents of the Confederacy express as much hostility to the North's public infrastructure projects and "internal improvements" as they did support for slavery They saw it as the same issue, their "way of life" https://twitter.com/theashleyray/status/1302024072725839872 …
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(Hence the whole thing about ancient civilizations inventing things "early" -- the Inca only using wheels as children's toys, the Greeks inventing Hero's Aelipole, a simple steam engine, as an experiment -- but not using it for anything because why bother when you have slaves)
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You know how there are alternate histories where the south seceded? Are there any where the south seceded and just ends up as backwater like a racist North Korea?
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All the realistic takes on this scenario imagine this as exactly what happens
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*nods in late Spartan*
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