Zoomie1980
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- Jan 16, 2008
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The confederate states wouldn't be a viable nation by themselves.
Cotton is no longer king.
Perhaps they might become a state funded by sending their soldiers off to die in other people's wars.
Lord knows that the South creates the sorts of guys who are used to having to go into the military because there's damned all little opportunity to make a living at home.
Not so sure about that. The South now manufactures more than any other area of the country, being home to Honda, Toyota and BMW plants, massive petrochemical plants. And over 75% of the gasoline and other distillates come from Texas and Lousiana. Cotton isn't king, but oil and refined products are, and most of that is in the South. Top end transportation now too and most of the best ports (Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, Miami-Ft lauderdale, Jacksonville, Norfolk. And most of the major military bases are there, too. NASA and the Kennedy Space Center so kiss good by to space for the rest of the US.
Not so much as if the South could stand on it's own, but the north would die without it.