Naw, the real reason is DiogenesLamp fears the truth & avoids facts the way Count Dracula shrinks from the true Cross.
That's why he won't read my posts.
DiogenesLamp: "What I have are facts.
I can show where the money went.
You guys can't."
You can show nothing factual that opposes real history.
Nobody denies that money flowed in 1860 just as it flows today, from producers to consumers & back again by various routes & reasons.
Nobody denies that once secessionists began renouncing their debts and refusing to pay what they owed, then Northern Democrat merchants suddenly had skin in the game.
Instead of supporting their Southern brethren's secession, they now began to oppose it.
But there's no evidence -- none, zero, zip evidence -- suggesting those Democrats were suddenly driving Republican Lincoln's policies or actions.
DiogenesLamp: "This Country is ruled by New York and Washington DC mostly, and every day people bitch about the Media (New York) and the "Establishment" (Washington DC) and not a one of you can see when this all started, and why it has kept going."
It started with the first US administration in Washington, DC, and that was.... ?
Oh, yeh, Southern Democrat Thomas Jefferson, 1801.
It would do Mr. Diogenes well to remember the adage “One is entitled to one’s opinion. But not to one’s own facts’’.