[Non-Sequitur]

o you see any meaning in posting that data other than to 'look smart'. Of course the majority of cotton bales left Southern ports...it was grown in the South, dummy.

Likewise the majority of imports were landed in Northern ports...that's where the consumers were. Dummy.

[PeaRidge]

You still act as if you never heard of the Star of the West or the Nashville.

See: "Likewise the majority of imports were landed in Northern ports"