And if it was a big thing, would it confirm Northerners wanted war to take away that big pile of Southern money?
My good friend Brother Joe, who introduced the book, didn't exactly say it was a big thing . . . he simply said the “disparity is striking.”
My point about today's wealth multiples was serious, if somewhat irreverent. IF a 3X wealth disparity was a disqualifier then, what would today's wealth disparity nationwide, and worldwide, require?
I'm avoiding saying anything directly about the book's contents because I don't know anything about it.
If you'd like a current global analogy, suppose the wealthiest oil exporters were suddenly taken over by Fire Eater radicals and out of hatred for President Trump's "western values" stopped exporting oil.
Suppose they then declared & waged war on their biggest customers.
It would make no sense, anyone would say "they're crazy and have to be defeated".
That's what happened in 1861.