Well, if Pea Ridge's postings on the finances are accurate, and I believe them to be the most accurate I have yet seen, then the Federal Government was telling 20% of the population (the Southern States) to pay for 50%-80% of the Government.
Apparently the Southern states payed the vast majority of all the tariffs which funded the nation, and they didn't like it. Who would?
That is just more Lost Cause mythology. Here's a good article that dispells that myth.