Of course I make sense. Did the south benefit from tariffs imposed by the Union? The south didn’t think so.
Would the CSA benefit from tariffs they imposed? Sure, if they set them up for that purpose.
Why would you think the south would be any less inclined to protectionism if they thought it to be in their interest instead of their detriment?
Why not? The majority of what the federal government spent it's money on was the military. The federal troops that helped protect Texas from Indians, along with other states. That spent money to build Fort Sumter, along with other federal facilities. Some of the rest went to support mints in places like New Orleans and Charlotte. Or to subsidize the postal service in southern states to the tune of $16 million a year. And of the tariffs used to subsidize those federal expenditures only a small fraction were collected in the South. So I would suggest that the South benefitted from federal spending far more than what they paid in.
Would the CSA benefit from tariffs they imposed? Sure, if they set them up for that purpose.
Virginia would definitely benefit from the protective tariffs promised. But the rest of the Confederacy would pay to protect Virginia business. So again, if protective tariffs were such a big issue then why was the Confederacy so anxious to continue them?
Why would you think the south would be any less inclined to protectionism if they thought it to be in their interest instead of their detriment?
Because they weren't that big a deal regardless of who was imposing them. When you're not paying much of the tariff to begin with then why worry about it?