Well first of all, your map (reproduced below) is yet another crock of nonsense:This map has nothing whatever to do with 1860 except possibly show where future slavery may have expanded, i.e., west Texas, Arizona and California.
Your response to it is the crock of nonsense. (There is that word again!) The map shows that it was clearly impossible to expand slavery to the "territories" because you could grow no cash crops in any of them. You point out west Texas, Arizona and California, and if you had bothered to read what I wrote, you would know it was impossible to grow cotton in any of those places in the 1860s because it required modern electric pumps and irrigation systems to even make it possible.
Effectively, Slavery could not expand to the territories, so the whole issue was phoney baloney astro-turf crap, and curiously enough, the party which was most responsible for spreading this nonsense was the "Free Soil Party", and coincidentally it was head quartered in New York.
So why would a New York headquartered entity be worried about "free men and free soil" in the territories a thousand miles away? Could it have something to do with representation in Congress, and therefore control of the power of Washington DC? They should have at least put this phone baloney organization in Chicago, where it would look a little more plausible having better proximity to the region in question.
Slave holders clearly had their eyes on any and all possibilities for expanding slavery beyond its 1850s limits.
So we have been constantly told, though the facts of modern cotton growing would indicate either those people in the 1860s who grew cotton for a living were either too stupid to know they couldn't grow cotton there, or this is just made up propaganda bullsh*t spread by people with other reasons for gaining those states representation in Congress.
DiogenesLamp:
"You point out west Texas, Arizona and California, and if you had bothered to read what I wrote, you would know it was impossible to grow cotton in any of those places in the 1860s because it required modern electric pumps and irrigation systems to even make it possible." Some cotton was grown in all those states before the sophisticated modern equipment now used.
DiogenesLamp: "Effectively, Slavery could not expand to the territories, so the whole issue was phoney baloney astro-turf crap, and curiously enough, the party which was most responsible for spreading this nonsense was the "Free Soil Party", and coincidentally it was head quartered in New York."
There were slaves in every southwestern territory & state, even though some state officials denied it.
For example: "New Mexico Territory never reported any slaves on the census, yet sued the government for compensation for 600 slaves that were freed when congress outlawed slavery in the territory.[233]".
DiogenesLamp on Confederate plans to expand their slavery outside the US: "So we have been constantly told, though the facts of modern cotton growing would indicate either those people in the 1860s who grew cotton for a living were either too stupid to know they couldn't grow cotton there, or this is just made up propaganda bullsh*t spread by people with other reasons for gaining those states representation in Congress."
Once again: cotton was grown in some areas of all those states without the latest in modern irrigation machinery.
More important, cotton was not the only successful slave-product, there were many others, sugar for example.
Here again is one vision of what the successful Confederate States Empire might look like:
