“You seem to be omitting that the entire 4 years was spent trying to repel an invading foreign army.”
Perhaps, the South could of held off the Union for a bit longer than four years if they had accepted the reality of the Industrial Revolution. The North understood the Industrial Revolution as did Great Britain and much of Europe.
Why is it that the South refused to industrialize? Were they all luddites or did they lack the literacy needed to industrialize?
If we are to take any lesson from history, it is that if a nation neglects to adapt to a changing technology or economy, the nation will fail.
And the Confederacy was a Failed State that only lasted four years.
But don’t worry. The CSA is not alone in its status of being a failed state.
Some failed states in 2010 that will keep you company are:
Sudan
Chad
Zimbabwe
Central African Republic
Haiti
East Timor
North Korea
Republic of the Congo
Uganda
But somehow I doubt that in 150 years the people of Zimbabwe will be all so proud of the Zimbabwe of 2011.
Kind of hard to industrialize when raw materials were being kept out by a BLOCKADE.