FourLeafClover
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2011
- Location
- London
Would you think that it is fair to say, putting the manufacturing centre near to the raw material is more convenient and profitable. If so why were there no efforts to take the large mills and factories based in, mainly, Northern US, and begin setting up industrial centres in Southern US.
Were there reasons why this was not logistically possible?
Or were Southern businessmen content to see, the smoking chimneys and urban concentrated populations remain outside of their own backyard?
There appears to me, a hand in glove relationship between the cotton growers and the factory/mill owners. That the old established methods of shipping the cotton as cargo were preferable.
As so much of the raw material was destined for European markets. It would make sense to subtract enough for the domestic market. Before shipping out from Eastern seaboard ports for Europe. But why then was there no major outlet in the South for the export of, formerly rice, tobacco and latterly cotton? There appears to be no problem today with oil terminals. So why not back in pre war Southern US?
Such an infrastructure would have no doubt assisted, independance and secession. The ingenuity and inventiveness of the CSA with a dearth of raw materials to hand. Makes me think that any effort to construct an industrial base would have been a success.
I am once more left with the conclusion that Southern leadership was definately so regressive in its thinking. That the stand it made in protection of "the old ways". Was so akin to the ostrich with its head in the sand, that they were happier to have a fight, than move with the times.
Were there reasons why this was not logistically possible?
Or were Southern businessmen content to see, the smoking chimneys and urban concentrated populations remain outside of their own backyard?
There appears to me, a hand in glove relationship between the cotton growers and the factory/mill owners. That the old established methods of shipping the cotton as cargo were preferable.
As so much of the raw material was destined for European markets. It would make sense to subtract enough for the domestic market. Before shipping out from Eastern seaboard ports for Europe. But why then was there no major outlet in the South for the export of, formerly rice, tobacco and latterly cotton? There appears to be no problem today with oil terminals. So why not back in pre war Southern US?
Such an infrastructure would have no doubt assisted, independance and secession. The ingenuity and inventiveness of the CSA with a dearth of raw materials to hand. Makes me think that any effort to construct an industrial base would have been a success.
I am once more left with the conclusion that Southern leadership was definately so regressive in its thinking. That the stand it made in protection of "the old ways". Was so akin to the ostrich with its head in the sand, that they were happier to have a fight, than move with the times.
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