The population of the North in 1860 was 22 million. The population of the South was 9 million, including 3.5 million slaves. 5.5 million free people weren't going to outspend 22 million free people, especially if those 5.5 million were mostly rural and the 22 million lived together in cities. There was more industry in the North and business also imported machinery necessary for production. There were only so many crystal chandeliers and Paris gowns that plantation owners could buy. So no, most imports weren't sold in the South.
Why did not the South just build their own factories and be done with shipping their raw materials off to England to be processed into exports back to the south. ? !
“There were only so many crystal chandeliers and Paris gowns that plantation owners could buy”
The only overseas imports purchased by the South in 1860 was coffee and clothing.
Another Fake X fact.
>>x wrote: “There was more industry in the North and business also imported machinery necessary for production. There were only so many crystal chandeliers and Paris gowns that plantation owners could buy. So no, most imports weren’t sold in the South.”
That is a fallacious argument — complete and total left-wing propaganda. The Whigs, later renamed the “Republicans,” who were the elitists of the Northern states, and who followed the leads of the anti-capitalist mercantilists named Hamilton and Clay, routinely plundered the resources of the South to support crony-capitalist patronage within the “party,” that the greedy, blood-thirsty psychopathic rhetorician named Lincoln eloquently labeled “an internal improvement system.” Slick!
Yes, the modern-day crony system that helps most every politician become filthy rich in only a few years, is nothing more than the “Hamilton-Clay-Lincoln” Family Tradition.
Mr. Kalamata