Don’t worry Elabagunker I will forgive your uninformed ignorance. Do you not consider steel mills and ship building yards industry? Chemical plants, munitions plants, and textile mills all destroyed in the northern effort to keep the southern man down. The south repelled the north for several years at the start of the war and that alone should tell you that their industrial output had to be very close to that of the north, but what should I expect, teaching a liberal deductive reasoning is 10 times more difficult than teaching a dog calculus.