The South as a whole was not very interested in manufacturing. Cash crop agriculture was where the money was at. There were about 110,000 people out of 9,000,000 people in the South involved in manufacturing in 1860. As a percentage, 84% of the South’s population was engaged in agriculture. The capital the South generated from cash crop agriculture was plowed back into cash crop agriculture, not manufacturing. Textile mills located only a few miles away for the raw material and using substantial slave labor failed, because Southerners were not interested in buying the textiles.
You have good knowledge of the history. If southerners were not interested in buying the textiles, what about the European markets? I can’t understand why the south couldn’t get their manufacturing going. They had great advantages.