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It would be disastrous.

First off, the south "winning" the Civil War would just mean they successfully fought a defensive war and the north backed off. However, the north had all the economic advantages. They could have easily choked out the south over the following years economically. Considering what actually happened (the souths trade partners found other ways to import goods), odds are this would have had a lot of success. Considering how much stronger the norths industrial economy was, it would have led to a long, drawn out bleed period of the south, either until they successfully shifted economic practices or another civil war.

So instead of it being wrapped up in 4-5 years and into reconstruction, it would have took much longer and considering what happened in the world at the turn of the 1900s would have put both countries (or a newly reunified country) on such a worse, weaker position to deal with those headwinds. Odds are that such a push back of either unification or remaining split would have meant that the US would not have been in the solid position it was at the end of WW2 when it gained the ability to drastically influence geopolitics and the beginning of Pax Americana.