re: #35 The Pie Overlord!

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Meanwhile, in the real world, one of the bits glossed over in most US history classes is that the Confederate States of America were an absolute political and economic basketcase. Their federal government was really in-name-only since the state governments went so far as to sabotage each other, at least when the cotton farmers weren’t sabotaging the new nation’s economy by imposing an embargo under the belief that the Brits and French would be so desperate for Southern cotton that they’d extend diplomatic recognition to the nascent state.