re: How much better off we would all be if the South had been permitted to secede

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But what do you think that the wild-eyed Southern boys would have done in response to that kind of thing?

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Probably the same thing they did to newly freed black people and Republicans during Reconstruction. They would lose like they finally lost then too.

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The southern planter class gave us the elite public colleges of the south to educate themselves...LSU, Ole Mis

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LSU and Ole Miss aren't elite lol.

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Not really. The war was very unpopular in the Northern states.

The blockade would have only done so much against a nation that could feed itself with ease. It didn't change the pre-war situation. Slavery along with the monopoly in trade were the only two topics mentioned in every letter of secession.

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The war wasn't too popular among many in the North and South. Small farmers saw it as a war to benefit the slave owners, with nothing in it for themselves.

Even if the South could feed itself, which became harder as the war dragged on, what were they going to fight with when they ran out of weapons? They never had a chance.

Currently the south couldn't survive without the tax dollars sent to the feds as opposed to what they receive if you believe AI.

For example

New York paid an estimated $89 billion more in federal taxes than it received in 2023.
California sent about $78 billion more to the federal government than it received back in 2023.
New Jersey had a similar net contribution gap of roughly $70 billion in 2023

Conversely, states like Virginia received $79 billion more in federal funding than they paid in taxes in 2023, and Alabama received $41 billion more.

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The south was set back decades due to the barbaric and unconventional (at the time) military tactics used by the Union, not to mention the punitive measures enforced during Reconstruction.

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Should not have shot Lincoln.

The North did not go far enough with reconstruction. Jim Crow laws prove that.

The one thing the North did that was evil was to allow northern financial institutions to rob poor southern farmers of their mineral rights, paying pennies to the dollar for what the poor did not realize the value of.

Say the South seceded and allowed to operate on its own. A decade or two down the road if one of the CSA decided it wanted to rejoin the union would the CSA allow it and if it was allowed would other states slowly follow? Or would the all the states in CSA have to do it at once?

Also going back to the industrial revelation. The North benefited upfront in the factories. However they used orphanages as temp agencies.

It seems would not be until the invention for the farm tractor and the various implements it uses would replace much of the work the slaves did in the agriculture sector. However cotton still had to be picked by hand till the 50's or 60's.

That is what Johnny Cash did.

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Should not have shot Lincoln.

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Got what he deserved

We would be better off if we did it now.