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What were the causes of the Southern independence movement in 1860? . . . Northern commercial and manufacturing interests had forced through Congress taxes that oppressed Southern planters and made Northern manufacturers rich . . . the South paid about three-quarters of all federal taxes, most of which were spent in the North." - Charles Adams, "For Good and Evil. The impact of taxes on the course of civilization," 1993, Madison Books, Lanham, USA, pp. 325-327 incidentally, Charles Adams is a tax expert.

And he is totally full of crap on that point. He must be reading Neo confederate propaganda to come up with a bogus stat like that. I’ll post it again just for fun and ask you if the people shipping these good from Europe were stupid. Why ship all their stuff to New York when 3/4 of their customers were in the South. They could ship stuff to the South unload it and then pick up the cotton while they were there. Why didn’t they do that? Were they morons?

And no he's not. He's completely correct. He was reading the economic data. I'll say it again. WHERE THE SHIP LANDS IS IRRELEVANT. Do you think the city of Long Beach consumes vast amounts of goods from China? Duh. Of course not. That's just the single biggest port (by far) where most of the goods land. They are then trans shipped all over the place.

Nobody is saying 3/4s of their customers were in the South. Nor would they have to be. The goods were sold everywhere.

Why didn't they just ship directly ie from Southern ports to Europe and vice versa? Because that's not the way shipping/trade was organized. Because it was more economically efficient to have a central distribution hub then just as it is now. I might add Cotton was seasonal while other goods might not be etc etc.

Do you really think you....160 years later....understand how their economy works better than all those people at the time did?

And he is totally full of crap on that point. He must be reading Neo confederate propaganda to come up with a bogus stat like that.

Nope. He is correcting the lying Northern propaganda which paints a false picture of what happened.

The North started a war with the South for money. They didn't do it for "Union". They didn't do it for "Slavery." They did it only for money, because they knew they were going to be cut out of those revenue streams which had made them rich.

They were evil, corrupt, vicious men who saw Southern independence as a threat to their wealth, and they made up all their bullshit about why they decided to attack the South, but the truth is it was to protect their money.

Why ship all their stuff to New York when 3/4 of their customers were in the South.

Again, you don't know how the packet system worked in this era. Everything was set up to trans-ship from New York. It benefitted the Northern shipping industry the most to do it that way, and yes, *THEY* ran the packet shipping too.