>>x wrote: “There was more industry in the North and business also imported machinery necessary for production. There were only so many crystal chandeliers and Paris gowns that plantation owners could buy. So no, most imports weren’t sold in the South.”
That is a fallacious argument — complete and total left-wing propaganda. The Whigs, later renamed the “Republicans,” who were the elitists of the Northern states, and who followed the leads of the anti-capitalist mercantilists named Hamilton and Clay, routinely plundered the resources of the South to support crony-capitalist patronage within the “party,” that the greedy, blood-thirsty psychopathic rhetorician named Lincoln eloquently labeled “an internal improvement system.” Slick!
Yes, the modern-day crony system that helps most every politician become filthy rich in only a few years, is nothing more than the “Hamilton-Clay-Lincoln” Family Tradition.
Mr. Kalamata
“routinely plundered the resources of the South”
What resources would that be?