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To: DiogenesLamp

The entire South provided a fraction of the tariff revenues, according to your own post.

The South apparently provided little income to the country in the form of tariff income, so you have lost another argument.


271 posted on 08/01/2022 8:14:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind; DiogenesLamp
ConservativeMind: "The South apparently provided little income to the country in the form of tariff income, so you have lost another argument."

In 1860 the US GDP was around $4.4 billion, of which roughly 15% came from "the South", or around $650 million.
Of that about $200 million came from the export of cotton, plus some portion of circa $20 million from tobacco exports.
Nearly all of the money earned by Southerners from exports went to pay for "imports" of common manufactured items from the North, NOT for luxury goods from abroad.

345 posted on 08/02/2022 8:52:42 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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