[DiogenesLamp]

No, I’m simply pointing out that it’s pretty common knowledge how the gold rush worked. People came west to seek their fortune, and if they didn’t go bust they sent money (or gold) east. The USS Central America has already been mentioned, and anybody who’s ever seen an old western movie has seen the Wells Fargo stage carrying a strongbox full of gold with a shotgun rider up top.

This is dodging the point about how this specie came to be spent to buy stuff in New York.

This constant portraying of New York investors as Southron hating boogiemen seems very Bernie Sanders to me.

Where are you getting that? Are you listening to BroJoeK again while he tries to put words in my mouth?

New York was loving the South so long as the money kept flowing in from Europe. They didn't get upset until they realized the South was going to stop that money flow, and then take most of their trade with Europe away from them.

That would have been followed by a drain on population and businesses of which some would relocate to the South to resume business.

The point here is that an independent South would have been enormously costly to very wealthy men of power, and who were backers of Lincoln.

[SoCal Pubbie]

None of the gold from California, Colorado, or Montana, or silver from Nevada, was from the South, was it? Kind of shoots a hole in your contention that all the specie came from Southern trade, doesn’t it?

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp post #514 referring to New Yorkers: "there is the factor of how many people want to do business with people who really really hate them and consider them immoral? "

x: "This constant portraying of New York investors as Southron hating boogiemen seems very Bernie Sanders to me."

DiogenesLamp "Where are you getting that?
Are you listening to BroJoeK again while he tries to put words in my mouth? "

Sorry, there's no need for anybody to put words in your mouth, you put plenty there yourself, as witness your comment about New Yorkers in post #514.
And now you want to back away from New York hating??
It's the whole point of your argument -- New Yorkers are evil -- so if you suddenly fall in love with New York, your whole point flushes right down the toilet.