[DiogenesLamp]

I know you’re walking down the Mason Dixon line until you get to Tara, err, the fallacy that southern cotton paid for northern imports.

I haven't suggested that. I just asked where the New Yorkers got their money to pay for European goods.

Could they have gotten it from their trade in Northern goods bought by Europe?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Go look it up yourself and stop tiptoeing through the tulips.