[DoodleDawg]

All the economic data for that time period backs it up. You just don't want it to be true, because it puts a different light on the relationship between the North and the South.

I don't want to to be true because it isn't.

[DiogenesLamp]

I don't want to to be true because it isn't.

Show me your source of economic data from this time period.

Don't just tell me, show me.