[DiogenesLamp]

I'm not going to argue about this. That money came from the South. Period. Full Stop.

I know you want to pretend that the South was not a huge money stream for the Northern powers, but the truth is that it was.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I'm not going to argue about this. That money came from the South. Period. Full Stop.

Just like a Lost Causer. Wave the white flag, then insist that you've won.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "I'm not going to argue about this.
That money came from the South. Period. Full Stop."

False, as usual.
The numbers for 1860 show $334 million in merchandise exports, plus $67 million in specie exports, for a total of $401 million.
Of that, cotton was roughly half and no other "Southern products" amounted to more than a couple of percent.

In 1861 when cotton was deleted, US exports fell 35%, which was important, but hardly the disaster DiogenesLamp wants us to believe.
By 1864 US tariff revenues had doubled from 1860.