[SoCal Pubbie]

Actually. I just don’t want to put words in your mouth, so to speak. I just want you to clarify something you wrote. It’s a very simple request.

[DiogenesLamp]

It is already clear. If you think it is unclear, see my reference to the intentions of the Northerners to make everyone eat New England Clam Chowder.

But on the economic point I made when you entered this discussion, I dare say you have been shocked to discover that the South was paying for the vast bulk of all Federal expenditures, and you did not know that before.

I didn't either a few years ago, and when I learned of it, I immediately realized there is something wrong with the story that I had been taught about the Civil War growing up.

If the South was producing the vast bulk of the European money, how was it all ending up in New York?