[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp to SoCal Pubbie: "And I now marvel at your willingness to go to all this trouble to ignore the fact that the South produced the vast majority of all Trade income for the US, while trying to salvage what you wish to believe by attempting to see if you could get the statistics to lie on your behalf.
I dare say you didn't even know the South was producing the vast majority of export income until I informed you of it.
You still do not want to believe it, because it make my argument that the North attacked the South to prevent Trade competition, uncomfortably close to proven for your taste."

And in these few sentences we clearly see that DiogenesLamp's argument is not based on actual history, but on his desperate need to "prove" his untenable thesis that "Lincoln attacked the South" strictly over economic concerns.

The power of DL's thesis means any and all data must be forced to fit it, regardless of historical reality.

[DiogenesLamp]

It doesn't take much effort to get it to fit. I'm not the one needing to get into the statistical weeds to disprove it. It fits well on the face of it.