LOL. You are hopeless. You add parameters not previously mentioned. Price of cotton is the price of cotton. You made a blanket statement, which was false, and cannot admit it.
Good day.
You interpreted my statement to mean something it did not.
And in trying to parse that particular statement as unfavorably as you could, you completely lost track of the discussion.
The fact remains that the South was in economically much better shape on the eve of secession than it was just a decade before.
This fact - the South's dramatically increasing prosperity - puts paid to the common claim among Confederate apologists that the South was forced to secede because federal economic policy had crippled the Southern economy.
Which is, after all, the point at issue.