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Stuff and nonsense. Unless by exist you mean continued thievery from the United states. It wasn't that they lacked the resources, or the will to create an infrastructure - they lacked the interest. Sure, they had the makings for a fledgling economy, if they could survive being devoured by any one of a number of foreign powers. But not enough of an engine to survive for very long, even in the very best of circumstances.

And so now I must wonder how New Orleans ever got by for 58 years before the United States came along? 74 years for Mobile Alabama.

Yeah, they were just completely helpless before they had a Federal Teat to suck on.

And you think what I said was nonsense.

DiogenesLamp to rockrr: "And so now I must wonder how New Orleans ever got by for 58 years before the United States came along? 74 years for Mobile Alabama."

Sorry, but in early 1861 the seven-state Deep-South rump-Confederacy was not economically viable, certainly short term, for several reasons beginning with the fact that they were a single-product economy, slave-produced cotton, and so subject to the vagaries of international cotton markets.
Yes, for over 50 years those markets had been robust and growing, and the Deep South the number one supplier, resulting in ever higher prosperity and ever higher slave prices.
But the Confederacy quickly learned in the 1860s that the world did not, after all, revolve around them, and could just as well get along without them.
This was the root-cause of the South's enduring-deep poverty following the Civil War.

Please see post #307 above for more details on this subject.