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Actually, the South and in particular Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia were unjustly taxed to the point that the South was paying 75% of national federal budget and only about 10% of the money was returned to Southern states. The agricultural South was without question financing the industrial North. The North wanted Southern resources for pennies on the dollar.
Because...of the anti-Southern majority that existed in Congress, hence the reason the South felt like their rights were being violated.
I have an idea. Let's change gears a little and talk about the Red River Campaign of 1864 and how it was less about military strategy and more about capturing Southern cotton, to shipped up North to the textile mills.
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