[DiogenesLamp]

How do you interpret the South making 200 million dollars per year in export trade, and the North making 78 million dollars per year in export trade, and the vast bulk of all the money ending up in New York, any differently?

[HandyDandy]

I am quite certain that if you were to just scratch the surface a little bit, you would find that any Southern business man who was worth his weight in cotton, opened up shop in NYC. Sorry. NYC was the place to do business (for all sorts, not just northerners).

[DoodleDawg]

How do you interpret the South making 200 million dollars per year in export trade, and the North making 78 million dollars per year in export trade, and the vast bulk of all the money ending up in New York, any differently?

Lot of different ways.