[BroJoeK]

HangUpNow to x: "Diogenes' thesis on tariffs is part and parcel of the big picture regarding internal, domestic policies that were patently unfair and biased toward the influential monied North.
You've conveniently ignored all the dynamics and factors -- nuanced and obvious, pre-war and post-war. "

What you and every pro-Confederate "conveniently ignore" is the historical fact that until 1860, the South ran Washington DC.
Washington was a tool of the South, to accomplish whatever they wished:

1. Slave-holders' 3/5 rule gave them control over the South.
   
2. The South controlled the national Democrat party.
   
3. Through its alliance with Northern big city bosses (i.e., Tammany Hall), Democrats were nearly always the majority party in Washington DC.

That means all blubbering nonsense from DiogenesLamp & others about how the South felt so "oppressed" or "disparaged" is just ridiculous, since the South controlled the majority about 90% of the time, until 1861.
As such Southerners wrote the laws which today's pro-Confederates claim so "oppressed" them.

[DiogenesLamp]

What you and every pro-Confederate "conveniently ignore" is the historical fact that until 1860, the South ran Washington DC.

Well they certainly *PAID* for it, but so far as "running" it is concerned, you will have to explain to me how the 11 Southern states managed to outvote the 23 Other states, in Congress.