I think a lot of what you read on line is "know nothing" stuff. What I mean, is, if you were a well connected citizen of Charleston or New Orleans, you'd know who the heads of the big commercial agencies in town were and which British houses they did business with. If you didn't have much sense of the economic life of the city you'd fall for all the sloganeering.
Strange as it may seem now, globalization was going on back in the 1850s. A firm like Frasier, Trenholm had a hard time knowing if they were a British or a Southern or a Northern form, right down to the point when war made it necessary to decide.
“Strange as it may seem now, globalization was going on back in the 1850s.”
I can see that, and I think the revisionists really don’t understand the reality of what was going on.