christof139
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No chrisof, not in the south. In the north it would be more realistic. If I had designed the game, that's how I would have done it. Then the governor worry would be perhaps more of a problem if the governor was uncooperative but it wasn't designed that way. I can't figure out why not because they could have borrowed from COG. Chrisof, you might be wrong to an extent. I think southern governors had more to do with production than you think. Jefferson Davis was very influential but his governors had some say. The southern Guvs. were strong and Guv. Vance of NC was very strong and organized hie state very well. However, the CSA central govnt. grew stronger as the war progressed and had the final say in many matters, as long as the CSA Congress ratified those laws that the CSA central government was using, which of course shows the individual states did have power, but the CSA central government did have a good degree of power and certain war powers were enacted by Pres. davis and the central govnt. regardless of what individual states desired or didn't desire. The thing is this, the individual states had enough power and resources to operate state war and civilian support industries and of course private industry operated thoughout the war, and this is true in both the USA and CSA and almost everywhere else. To show you examples of the power the CSA central governmnet had just look at how fairly successful and rigidly enforced the conscription laws were, and how the the central government arms and munitions etc. factories were set-up and run with a fair amount of success. The CSA central govn't. also successfully enforced a cotton and other goods export taxes. There was resistance to conscription in both the CSA and USA, and open rebellion against conscription in both nations, but perhaps the best known examples of this are the Detroit and NYC Draft Riots, however, this resistance was not encouraged nor supported by state governments. So, compared to a dictatorship, neither the USA nor CSA would compare in certain powers that their central governments had, but those two central had a tremendous amount of power none the less. The individual states had more power and independence than their counterparts in Europe perhaps, but they still supported their central governments. Govenors were never uncooperative to the point of open rebellion but they did sometimes meddle with the raw and finished material supply etc. and sometimes ths did indeed hurt the central govnt. However, despite this, there is not one example of an individual state rebelling against the central govnt. in either the CSA or USA. Overall, the CSA Govenors did seem to have a little more power and some were very independtly minded compared to most USA Govenors, but these aspects varied from Govenor to Govenor. So seperate state industries would be more appropriate for the CSA than the USA. Chris
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