[P-40]

The War would have been avoided had the South chosen to industrialize

With an economy based largely on agribusiness and lacking the easy access to vast quantities of fresh water....I doubt they could have. This is true today for the most part.

Perhaps if the South had been paid up front for what amounted to a loss of property....who knows.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

...lacking the easy access to vast quantities of fresh water...

Too bad the Mississippi River did not contain fresh water prior to the Civil War.