Joe, i've whipped your @$$ so many times before, it has become tedious. You never learn anything, you just come back with more obfuscation, false equivalence, and excessive irrelevant details.
This is why I stopped taking you seriously on this issue.
Now I've gotten you to admit that 50% of the government revenue came from the South, and at one time I got you to admit it was as high as 60%.
But even at 50%, how is it reasonable for 1/4th of the citizens to pay 50% of the taxes, while the other 3/4ths pay only 50%?
The North should have been paying 3/4ths of the Taxes, and the South should have been paying 1/4th.
No matter how you look at it, the North was exploiting the South as a money cow.
But you have "whipped" nobody, ever.
You have only ever babbled your stupid fact-free nonsense & lies.
You simply cannot, or will not, deal with actual facts & logic.
So, all your brave words here are the equivalent of a football team pushed into its own endzone and then claiming they scored a "touchdown"!
No, you lost every time.
DiogenesLamp: "Now I've gotten you to admit that 50% of the government revenue came from the South, and at one time I got you to admit it was as high as 60%."
I've "admitted" no such thing, only repeated what I've said for many years: Confederate states contributed roughly 50% to total US exports, not to revenues from import tariffs.
You insist those are linked, but reality is that about 80% of import tariffs, even indirectly after raw materials were manufactured, ~80% of end users lived outside Confederate states.
Confederate state contributions to the US GDP in 1860 were roughly 15% and within three years of the loss of all Confederate state exports, by 1864 total Union exports matched those of 1860.
Bottom line: sure, Confederate states exports were important, but they were not the great factor you guys like to pretend.
Nor do they in any way justify your Marxist trope of "the North was exploiting the South as a money cow."