User blog comment:Beauhunt III/History Project/@comment-26240225-20150518030550/@comment-26240225-20150518032031

Aight man... here it goes. The South was the only ideal part to use slaves to grow cotton, as the confederacy's biggest export was cotton. Slavery was already on the decline and the increase of cotton production (if the south ever got to different areas of the US to grow cotton like Cali) would cause plantation owners to have to sell their slaves or be in debt. Then in their bought of poor-ness, the south would want aid and have to ask the north most likely. Then the north could cede with the south increasing the economic gain for both regions, avoiding the civil war in its entirety. Also, the union, the overarching power, could've magically decreased the cost of cotton, leading to economic ruin of the south. We can beat the south using money instead of war.