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That condescending Yankee comment could have come from the 19th century.

And how long do you think the original seven would have lasted with no manufacturing industry to speak of, no financial industry, little transportation and no shipping industry at all? A country where almost one half the total population - 47% - was owned by the other half? Your confederacy would have been totally dependent on someone else to do virtually everything except grow their exports. It couldn't feed itself, finance itself, insure itself, or get its exports to market. It would have either had to start all that from scratch or else become, to all intents, an economic colony of someone - the U.S. or more likely Europe. And as it happens, such a dependent situation was fine with your confederate ancestors. As Louis Wigfall told William Howard Russell of The Times: "We are an agrarian people; we are a primitive people. We have no cities - we don't want them. We have no literature - we don't need any yet. We have no press - we are glad of it…We have no commercial marine - no navy - we don't want them. We are better without them. Your ships carry our produce and you can protect your own vessels. As long as we have our rice, our sugar, our tobacco, and our cotton, we can command wealth to purchase all we want from those nations with which we are in amity, and to lay up money besides."

So at the end of the day your precious confederacy would have become an area totally dependent on others, totally dominated by others, and loving every minute of it. You want to tell us again how wonderful that would have been?

As long as we have our rice, our sugar, our tobacco, and our cotton, we can command wealth to purchase all we want from those nations with which we are in amity, and to lay up money besides.

That's basically the economic model of most African nations- production of cash crops and importation of everything else. We've seen how succesful such an economy has been in the last century.

Oh, sure, the planters would probably have done okay. But everyone else in those states, whether black or white, free or slave, would have been relegated to never-ending poverty.

in other words, you don't believe that southerners couldn't have fixed their new nation, given time???

IF that is your opinion, you really are "out of touch" with REALITY. inbred, SELF-important,UNthinking, PREJUDICE does that to people.

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