The most likely outcome - the US devolving into a military dictatorship - would've been bad for everyone, especially the Black freedmen Booth wanted most of all to hurt
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But I don't think the good ol' honest white working man in the South Booth claimed to be defending would've done particularly well in the aftermath either
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That Andrew Johnson survived the plot is probably a bigger Civil War alternate history pivot than "what if Lee wins at Gettysburg".
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