I am not wrong on that point. Without a war to stop them, the South was going to keep all that money and the North was going to lose it.
Do I have to clarify for you the fact that the WAR is the only thing that stopped that from happening? Have you not heard me say over and over again the North launched that war to stop the loss of that money?
The Northern economy grew rapidly during the war while “King Cotton” proved to be nothing but a myth.
You blockade a country that is heavily dependent on foreign trade, and what do you expect to happen to their economy?
Again, the North did it to *STOP* the South from gaining wealth that the North would not be getting after secession.
And you act like it is some sort of "magic" for the Southern economy to go to sh*t when armies are invading and naval ships are blockading. Yeah, economies tend to do that when under attack.
The threat to the North was *PEACE*. War was the only answer that could work for the North. They absolutely could not tolerate a peace with the South, because peace would cut off their 700 million per year.
Keep all of what money? You already agreed they didn’t pay any Federal tax. They kept everything they made from cotton. What was the North going to keep?
Plus your genius Southern planters embargoed their own cotton when the war began looking to force England to get involved. The North didn’t need to blockade it. Instead of getting in a fight they didn’t want, England developed new sources of cotton in Egypt and India. Brilliant move that embargo was. They thought Cotton was King and they had the world by the balls. Turns out, that was not the case. And here we are 165 years later, and you still have not learned that.
And historical details aside, how in the f**k can you show sympathy for a bunch of rouge aristocrats who championed slavery and attempted to destroy this nation all for their own enrichment? That’s just sick.