[BroJoeK]

Diogeneslamp: ***”[The North] was going to collapse economically if the South was allowed to compete with them.”***

First you claimed I misrepresented your posts, and called me all kinds of nonsense, “cognative dissonance”!, then you repeated what I said only in stronger terms.
So what’s up with that?

[DiogenesLamp]

First you claimed I misrepresented your posts, and called me all kinds of nonsense, “cognative dissonance”!, then you repeated what I said only in stronger terms.

This is what I mean when I say your brain deliberately misinterprets what you read when it is something you don't want to hear.

It wasn't the LOSS of the South that was going to collapse the Northern Economic system. If the South just disappeared into the Ocean, it would have had much less impact on the North Eastern economy.

No, the economic *THREAT* was the fact the South wasn't going to go away, but would instead be setting up competing industries and distribution systems for European products as well as the ones they would eventually be manufacturing. They would not only take over the European money streams going into the North, they would take over the market for the products the North East was manufacturing and distributing by way of the Great lakes and Railroads.

This would have been the South's distribution network for products that would have competed against the artificially inflated prices of the North Eastern manufactured products.

Thanks for the map, by the way. :)