[stainlessbanner]

Right. There was no middle class in the South in 1861.

It was dirt farmers and the privleged class.

[muir_redwoods]

"Right. There was no middle class in the South in 1861.

It was dirt farmers and the privleged class."

There was no entrepreneurial class, no significant buying power outside of the privileged class and no significant industrial base compared to the free states.