[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.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "I'm not the one needing to get into the statistical weeds to disprove it. It fits well on the face of it. "

Proving yet again that it's much easier for a propagandist to make outrageous claims than it is to refute them in detail.

But I note the words you've quoted are essentially correct:

"...more than one half the whole is exclusively Southern origin."

Sure, but not necessarily Deep Confederate Southern origin.

"...of those articles common to all sections one-half goes directly from the South."

Sure, but "goes from" does not equate to "produced in", especially not to "produced in the Deep South".

"...of Northern manufactures much of the raw material is also of Southern origin."

Referring to raw cotton, a few million dollars of the total.

Your author does seem to recognize the difference between Deep South cotton and all other exports, but does not seem to realize that those other exports were not at all necessarily "Southern".