OK, simple question. Answer it and you've gone a long way to proving your point. U.S. tariff income in 1860 was about $60 million, and that the South accounted for upwards of 90% of that, or so Stainelessbanner would have us believe. That would mean that the remaining states accounted for only about $6 million in tariff revenue. In his 1864 message to Congress, Lincoln reported that tariff income for the prior year was $110 million. The question is how could the Northern demand for imports suddenly grow from $6 million in tariffs to $110 million. Can you answer that?
My best answer, without stopping for a Ph.D. in history.
Besides the point of my post was to shut down kangaroo, who said the CSA was larger and should have lasted longer. Any of those numbers show otherwise. Y'all live in a fantasy world and that last statement just proves there is a real lack of historical basis from alot of folks on these threads.