>yeah so we're gonna cut off this area that's completely dependent on Northern gibs for survival, give it completely indefensible borders with only 25% of our economy and ask it to defend itself!What were they thinking?
>>18535898At the time it was completely dependent on negro slavery, and not northern gibsmedats
>>18535898>Northern gibs for survivalAt the time, the federal government didn’t do much besides collect excise taxes, deliver the mail and guard the coastline and Indian frontier. “Internal improvements” were left to the states and private capital for canals, railroads, harbor dredging, etc. All this changed during the war and afterwards but it wasn’t until the New Deal that the fedbux poured into Dixie and dragged the region into the 20th century.
