Sure, sure, that would have been true if the British who supposedly could undercut domestic producers and shippers had been let in. Good luck letting the British in and then trying to develop your own industries and shipping companies.
Most of the country doesn't make one part of the country into a permanent enemy. They recognize that businesses are very intertwined nationally and globally. They haven't fallen for the propaganda from slaveowning days.
Have you looked around lately? The Liberal enclaves in New York, Boston, etc still hate all of us out here in "flyover country" and want us dead.
They still think they are morally superior because they recognize f@ggots in dresses as "women" and that there are 57 genders, that women are better than men, and that black people are better than everyone else.
Different set of "moral" issues than 1861, but from the same nasty arrogant "elite" in exactly the same cities as hated the rest of the nation back in 1861.
The enemy of the Southern states is our enemy today.
They recognize that businesses are very intertwined nationally and globally.
Eh, Gab? Deplatformed, denied banking services, denied credit card services, denied servers and attempted to be ran out of business using any trick of which the Liberal elite could think.
Those bakery shops ran out of business for not baking F@ggot cakes? Gun manufacturers being ran out of business?
Yes, the corporate left is at war with the corporate right. All the entertainment companies have "wokeified" their entertainment, and nowadays it looks like the nation is 80% black judging by the commercials we are seeing lately.