“I think you should blame Jefferson Davis (D-MS) for the problems of the South.”
That is probably the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever heard on this forum.
Jeff Davis was not even responsible for the Southern Independence movement, he was just elected president of the Southern Confederacy.
A case could be made that he was responsible for inability of the Southern Confederacy to hold back the Imperial hordes. But it seems highly unlikely any could do much better against such odds.
The author is right thou the devastation of the south, utter destruction of the south (economic base included) and subsequent Federal trade and monetary policy’s which favored industrial over agrarian economic activity served to impoverish the south. The trend of Federal policy was in this direction before the war(that is what led to the war) and after the war with the South striped of its political power and enslaved to the north. Protectionist and inflationary national banking policys became a mainstay.
Money became more constrated in the urban, manufacturing north and it became even harder for the now devastated agrarian southern economy to make a profit.
I was going for the whole (D-MS) thing. The economics of south is not a problem caused by the modern Republican party nor by Jeff Davis.