You don't see the dichotomy of supporting Independence from the United Kingdom, but opposing it for Independence from the United States?
To support both sides of an issue makes it appear that there is no definable principle involved, it's just a matter of self interest.
What the math shows is that New England ports collected most tariff revenue.
That's what the data shows.
The Southerners were not the only ones importing into the United States.
And this is where people try to confuse me. Who was producing the European money that buys imports? Clearly the North was producing 28% of it.
They could pay for 28% of the imports.
You have yet to show that it was Southerners that did most of the importing into the United States.
I show that the Southerners produced the bulk of the money paying for imports. Since this is provably true, how does anyone else import (more than 28%) into the US unless they are somehow getting that money away from the Southerners?
Well the answer is they were getting that money away from the Southerners, and they were doing it because they controlled Washington DC and could write laws and implement government policies that pried it away from the Southerners.
Well the answer is they were getting that money away from the Southerners, and they were doing it because they controlled Washington DC and could write laws and implement government policies that pried it away from the Southerners.
How many of the first 16 presidents of the United States owned slaves.
What year did the number of free states out number slave states in the Senate
The South was not politically powerless, most of the legislative items passed by the Congress got passed because Southern states voted for them and a Southern President signed the law.