[rockrr]

It is clearly the case that secession was going to take a big heap of money away from the North and it would then be distributed through the South.

And yet in real life the north economically recovered rather quickly.

[DiogenesLamp]

And yet in real life the north economically recovered rather quickly.

I guess you missed the part about the positive cash flow caused by using warships to force all the traffic into your ports instead of where they would have gone without the coercion.

How well would they have done had that trade gone to the South where it would have gone without the cannons forcing it North?