[Zalmon]

It would be interesting to consider what this country would be like now if the Confederacy had won and its Constitution were used as the basis for governance:

http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=353

The use of tariffs to shelter domestic industries from foreign competition had been an important issue since tariffs were first adopted in 1816. Southern states had borne heavy costs since tariffs protected northern manufacturing at the expense of Southern imports. The South exported agricultural commodities and imported almost all the goods it consumed, either from abroad or from Northern states. Tariffs drastically raised the cost of goods in the Southern states, while most of the tariff revenue was spent in the North.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

... while most of the tariff revenue was spent in the North.

Uh huh. Here's The Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for 1860. It has a complete breakdown of federal expenditures. Perhaps you can point out where over 50% of the money is going to benefit the north.

[beckysueb]

t would be interesting to consider what this country would be like now if the Confederacy had won and its Constitution were used as the basis for governance:

It would have been fine as long as the yankees would have left us alone. Slavery would have failed anyway. There were many many antislavery southerners. It would have been voted out eventually.