No, but it is precisely why Washington, DC -- on the Potomac between slave-state Virginia and slave-state Maryland -- is the United States Capital, instead of Northern cities like New York or Philadelphia.
Those cities were capitals, but Southern politicians insisted on a city where slaves were not just temporarily tolerated, as in Philadelphia, but permanently welcomed.
What you seem to have forgotten is that overwhelmingly, antebellum Southerners loved their life-style and disdained crass Northern commercialism & industrialization.
The hustle & bustle of big cities was not their ideal, while idyllic rural plantation life was.
Even those who had no slaves, such as the Scots-Irish of Appalachia, did not want big cities, what they wanted most was to be left alone in their hidden mountain redoubts.
So it's no coincidence that the archetypal antebellum Southern politician -- President Andrew Jackson, born in the Carolinas, lived in Tennessee -- hated more than anything the Second National Bank of the United States.
He had it destroyed in 1833.
Point is: most antebellum Southerners hated crass commercialists, and certainly didn't want to become like them.
So that a real reason why Richmond is not the US center of finance, and why Washington, DC is its center of political power.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/005354-today-s-tech-oligarchs-are-worse-than-robber-barons
Same stuff, different Century.
Such a war would be yet another example of the utter control of America by rich insiders. No normal American has anything at all to gain by such a war. And no normal American has the slightest influence over whether such a war takes place, except by voting for Trump. The military has become entirely the plaything of unaccountable elites.
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When Washington pushed the South into the Civil War, it expected a conflict that might be over in twenty-four hours, not four years with as least 650,000 dead. A point that the tofu ferocities of New York might bear in mind is that wars seldom turn out as expected, usually with godawful results. We do not know what would happen in a war with Russia. Permit me a tedious catalog to make this point. It is very worth making.
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What would Washington do, what would New York make Washington do, having been handed its ass in a very public defeat? Huge egos would be in play, the credibility of the whole American empire. Could little Hillary Dillary Pumpkin Pie force NATO into a general war with Russia, or would the Neocons try to go it alone–with other people’s lives?
Apparently someone else grasps the concept of how much power the New York elites wield in deciding whether or not Washington D.C. goes to war.
Same stuff, different century.
Well, that and the fact that "Roman" New York invaded and destroyed "Carthage" Richmond.
New York is wealthy because they violently suppressed trade by their competitors.