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See how retarded you sound?
Of course the Southern economy was in utter shambles during the Reconstruction. From 1865-1867, the two years after the war ended, food was extremely scarce and there was a major famine. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died; one historian pegs the number at a full million.
Clothes were the least of their concerns.
Hell, their economy still hasn't fully recovered; pretty much all of the poorest states are former slave states.