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?
Another distortion; If you read Davis speeches in 1864 he revealed that the South was totally self sufficient in small arms, as a matter of fact they had more small arms than conscripts/volunteers. No, it's true and I don't have time to do your research.