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No, the south did not really leave the union after the war. the south needed the support and assistance of the union so they could not have left.
To prevent the South from exporting its plentiful cotton in exchange for much-needed war-supplies.
Because the South had no manufacturing industry, so it needed foreign imports. But it also had no Navy to combat the Union blockade.
They needed cotton because the South farmed. If they didn't have the cotton, the North could not make all of the things they made.