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The United States would have been better off if the Civil War resulted in two different countries in the North and South. CMV.

As we have seen today, there are competing ideologies in the United States which has resulted in a federal government which can't seem to get anything done as a result of the conservative and liberal ideologies clashing with each other (I understand it is much more complicated than this, but I am speaking in general terms for the sake of argument). If the Civil War had resulted in two separate countries being created, it would have resulted in a more liberal country and a more conservative country, each being able to accomplish more with there being less disagreements within Congress. With the United States having grown to the size that it is today, having it be split into two different countries at the time of the Civil War would prevent the types of gridlock we see within our federal government today based on the competing ideologies that are seen in the north and the south. Please reddit, CMV.
gpt
First off, this sort of gridlock is relatively new. Sure, the historic "South" tends to disagree with more liberal areas but the gridlock we see today is less than 8 years old. From a historic perspective, the liberals and conservatives are usually able to work things out.

Even if they weren't, though, just having two countries wouldn't fix that. You would just have two countries in which the liberals and conservatives disagreed. Maybe one country would lean more liberal in general, but the extreme liberals would still fight with the leaning conservatives. Hippies and rednecks are not strictly divided by the Mason Dixon Line.

Finally, if the US had become two separate countries in the 1800s, both would have had terrible economies. Two countries that just finished an exceedingly bloody war wouldn't want to trade with each other. This would leave the north without cotton and many other agricultural products. It would leave the south without machinery and therefore in even greater need of slave labor. Both countries would flounder and likely wouldn't reach the point we are at today in terms of economic and technological progress.