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"in order to form a permanent federal government..."

A permanant federal government is a world of difference from a 'perpetual union'. You do understand the difference, right?

A case can be made that the Great Depression hit the farmers earlier and harder than it hit the industrial areas, and lasted longer. If the Confederacy was still a primarily agrarian economy then they would have been hit as hard or harder than everyone else.

I'm basing my assessment on writings from the era where people that lived on farms and had the means to subsist hardly knew that there was a depression going on. The fact is that most farmers were already 'poor'. I'm sure that the South would have felt some of it, such as a lower demand for agricultural products but I don't think that there would have been the massive unemployment, soup lines, homelessness, etc.

I don't think that's true. Especially the 'then' part.

Please elaborate.

How would the Confederacy fund it? Since they were supposed to be so opposed to tariffs and all.

Aw, c'mon. That's just silly. They would have funded it the way they funded 4 years of attempts to repel the heathen invaders from the north.

And as far as that tariff argument, well, that's just plain silly, too.