The South's post-Civil War (1861-1865)backwardness was due to all of the following,according?to Hughes and Cain (2011),except

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According to Hughes and Cain (2011), the South's post-Civil War backwardness was due to extensive wartime destruction of life and wealth, the fiscal disaster of the Confederacy, and the sharecropping system's failure to provide incentives for innovation in agriculture. However, the price of cotton not falling, but failing to increase as it had prior to the Civil War, was not a contributing factor to the South's backwardness.

The South's Post-Civil War (1861-1865)backwardness Was Due to All of the Following,according?to