http://railroads.unl.edu/views/sources/US%201861.jpg
DoodleDawg: True. But does nothing to answer the question I've been asking all along.
which is?
DoodleDawg: Yep. So how did the goods get from New York, Boston, and Philadelphia to the Mississippi?
you said just the Mississippi and Ohio. Hell forget the Ohio. Do you have any idea how much traffic flowed up and down the Mississippi?
DoodleDawg: Is it not your contention that the South paid the large majority of tariffs? "Vast amounts" is the term I believe you used. How did they pay it if they did not consume the vast majority of imports?
This is what I was saying before about how this has become an endlessly repetitive waste of time. The owners of the goods had to eat most of the cost of the tariff. They could not pass it on to their customers due to domestic ie Northern competitors who - once they'd been saddled with a tariff - were price competitive with them.
DoodleDawg: And you do? LOL!
Compared to you? LOL! I'm a font of knowledge.
DoodleDawg: I'm saying that Adams makes the same kind of unsupported claims that you do, apparently offering opinion as fact.
and I'm just saying Adams provides sources. You just refuse to accept them because they're inconvenient.
DoodleDawg: Answer the question. If there was a distribution system why was it one way?
It wasn't. Your question time is over. Now go read. For a change.
DoodleDawg: For example? I have seen no indication that there was a railroad grid that connected north with south, and southern railroads sole purpose was to connect the inland part of the state with a seaport.
see the pic I posted above
One line is your grid? One line with multiple junctions which may mean cargo had to be taken off one train and put on another? That's your grid?
which is?
If there was such a demand for imports down south why weren't those goods taken to their closest port like Charleston or New Orleans.
you said just the Mississippi and Ohio. Hell forget the Ohio. Do you have any idea how much traffic flowed up and down the Mississippi?
You're the one claiming there was a massive supply chain centered on New York. How did they get to the Mississippi?
This is what I was saying before about how this has become an endlessly repetitive waste of time. The owners of the goods had to eat most of the cost of the tariff. They could not pass it on to their customers due to domestic ie Northern competitors who - once they'd been saddled with a tariff - were price competitive with them.
Why couldn't they pass the price on?
Compared to you? LOL! I'm a font of knowledge.
A fountain of opinion. Long ago DiogenesLamp and I reached a sort of agreement where he believes I am and idiot and I concluded he is a moron. I think you and I are at the same point.