• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Was it really? I was under the impression that they mostly were agricultural, while the north had all the light and heavy industries… (sorry, I’m not american)

    • WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      You are correct. It heavily contributed to their loss. Without international support, or the industries to leverage that support they were isolated, poor and out of manpower.

      If Union leadership was better in the beginning we would have seen them rolled much faster.