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Further, for every dollar "the South" exported, they "imported" a dollar's worth of goods from the North.

I doubt you will get this point, but when you have a captive market in which you can inflate your prices over that of the foreign competition, a "dollar's worth" of goods doesn't mean what you are trying to portray it as.

Yes, in the controlled, protectionist market at the inflated prices caused by this protectionism, the South brought in a "dollar's worth" of goods from the North.

Of course that same dollar would have brought in 1 1/2, to 2 times the same value in European goods, but they weren't allowed to get those at the fair market prices because of the protectionist policies of the USA.

DiogenesLamp: "Of course that same dollar would have brought in 1 1/2, to 2 times the same value in European goods, but they weren't allowed to get those at the fair market prices because of the protectionist policies of the USA."

Total nonsense.
Here's what you don't "get": in 1846 Southern Democrats controlled the US House of Representatives at 63%, the Senate at 55% and the Presidency -- James K. Polk, from Tennessee.
And naturally, they wanted lower tariffs, so they reduced tariffs on the US #1 import, wool from Europe, to 30%.
They put #2 brown sugar from the Caribbean, at 25%, #3 cotton from Europe, at 25%, #5 Iron products at 20% and #10 wines from Europe, at 40%.
That was in 1846 when Southern Democrats ruled everything in Washington, DC.

In 1857, when Southern Democrats again controlled the House at 53%, Senate at 64% and Presidency -- Doughfaced Pennsylvanian James Buchanan, they reduced tariffs even further -- #1 Wool to 24%, #2 Brown Sugar to 24%, #3 cotton to 19%, #5 Iron to 24% and #10 wines to 30%.

In 1860 Southern Democrats defeated the proposed modest Morrill increases, but after secession in 1861 Republicans passed "enhanced" Morrill rates of -- #1 wool to 37%, #2 brown sugar to 26%, #3 cotton to 25%, #5 iron to 29% and #10 wines to 40%.

In other words, Republicans in 1861 returned US tariffs to roughly the same rates Southern Democrats imposed in 1846!

Look here, DiogenesLamp, the real problem is that you Democrats have a long history of, from time to time, simply going insane, every couple of generations you people go nuts.
And we see it today -- John F. Kennedy would be tarred & feathered by today's Democrats, not for philandering, of course, but for things like reducing Federal taxes.
Kennedy was way too conservative in such matters for today's crowd.
Even Democrat policies of just a few years ago are today subject for apologies and disavowals by presidential candidates.

And that's just what also happened in 1860 -- not that some new economic "oppression" suddenly arose from the North, but that policies which had seemed perfectly tolerable in, say 1846, were now suddenly cause for secession!

Or so you would have us believe.
The real truth is that while minor tariff differences may have mattered to a very small number of Southern elites, what moved the great majority of secessionists was the perceived threat by "Ape" Lincoln and his Black Republicans against, yes, slavery.

That's what they said, over & over, your repeated denials notwithstanding.