• Zink@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    You maybe would think about industrializing too before you split off…

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      1 year ago

      “Stupid northerners and their fancy trains.”

      “Hey, how TF they getting all these fuckloads of troops out here so fast?”

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      To be fair, they couldn’t industrialise before they split off. Their industries wouldn’t have been competitive with the well-established ones already existing in the north. Only ways they could become competitive were (a) secede and put up tariffs, or (b) get a huge aid package from the federal government so they can run things at a loss for a few years. And the northern states would not have been happy with (b), so …