The South won the American Civil War. The winners demonstrated justice and even generosity towards the defeated enemy: they drew the border in the middle of the country and laid all the economic consequences of the damage caused by the war on the defeated North. As a result, in a country consisting of 26 states, by the middle of the twentieth century, poverty reigned, and its scientific and technological development cannot be compared with what we observe in our reality (in 1938, the imagination of visitors to New York was not " Chrysler" with a height of 319 meters and not the 381-meter Empire State Building, but 15-story skyscrapers!).