text: if the democratic states formed a union independent from the republican states, which would lead economically? there's a factual answer here.  do you know it? so what if the south won the war is the question here.  we'd be a farming nation and economically challenged socialist and less a world power than say canada.   we'd still have slaves and there would be an active slave trade in the usa and likely the entire north and south america.   counties would be run much differently and things like pigs and cattle would be much more important than they are now.