Ok, nobody said there was parity, apparently there was enough industrial production to keep the Union at bay for four years. This phony picture of no industrial production in the south is another myth that people of your ilk seem to like to peddle. Look, you guys lose credibility with every post where you lie and try to misrepresent EVERYTHING about the civil war. This leads to a loss of reputation, not that any neo-Yankee has any self respect anyway.
Built out of necessity as a result of the war, as your sources make clear, and even then it was unable to meet Southern demands. Prior to the rebellion there was little interest in developing any kind of industrial base, so the idea that the South imported massive amounts of industrial machinery from Great Britain, and paid 85% of the total tariffs collected as a result, is absolute nonsense.
This phony picture of no industrial production in the south is another myth that people of your ilk seem to like to peddle.
By comparison there was none, and nothing you've provided disputes that.
Look, you guys lose credibility with every post where you lie and try to misrepresent EVERYTHING about the civil war.
ROTFLMAO!!! OK, you win. The original seven confederate states were a veritable industrial powerhouse prior to the war. Slavery didn't exist. It was all about the tariff.
No one cares if his reputation is ruined with YOU. There is no question that the South was very underdeveloped industrially and that the majority of what industry there was was in Virginia.
No one claimed there was NO industry in the South but that is a common method the Clown College uses. Take a point someone makes, distort it into an absolute then claim that since the absolute is false then the original point is discredited. This is also done with the black Confederate soldier argument.
Not only was the South underdeveloped wrt industry but also wrt railroads and both crippled its war-making ability. After the blockade prevented importation of most arms the South had very little chance of winning the war. When one side can produce arms at will and the other has to scrounge for them guess who is going to lose?