[Non-Sequitur]

If you wish to make the claim that you do, you should be able to evidence it with statistics pertaining to goods consumption itself.

The claim has been made by others, not me. The southern states paid the overwhelming majority of the tariff, you all say. I think it's reasonable to question that claim since so little of the actual tariff income came from southern ports. And I think it's reasonable to ask why the goods didn't come to them if they were such good customers.

[GOPcapitalist]

The southern states paid the overwhelming majority of the tariff, you all say.

In net economic losses caused by protectionism, they did. This has been shown many times.