Everyone interested in the Civil war should also check out the section on Southern Big Government in LS's "A Patriot's History of the United States." A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.
“A real eye-opener...the Confederate government was pretty much running the entire economy down to the smallest detail.”
True, but the North was run the same way during the war.
Southerners also forget they had a built-in advantage in the Constitution of counting 3 out of every 5 slaves for representation. Imagine that if, say, Texas could do that today with illegals!