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[-] Zink@pawb.social 9 points 8 months ago

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

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Stupid northerners and their fancy trains."

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

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

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 …

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