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To: jsraggmann
Agricultural products. The North had us whipped when it came to industry but we had a longer growing season & superior food producing capabilities.
64 posted on 02/14/2003 5:58:11 AM PST by HELLRAISER II
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To: HELLRAISER II
Agricultural products. The North had us whipped when it came to industry but we had a longer growing season & superior food producing capabilities.

Not supported in the record.

"The per capita output of the principal southern food crops actually declined in the 1850's, and this agricultural society was headed toward the status of a food deficit region."

--"BattleCry of Freedom, James McPherson, p. 100

When it came to southern cotton or northern wheat, guess what Europe needed the worst?

Walt

67 posted on 02/14/2003 6:28:48 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa (Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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