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To: TigerPaw who wrote (209296)	10/29/2004 4:18:21 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574856

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (209296)	10/29/2004 4:33:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574856

Different ways of life generally come from a single overpowering idea that is so polarizing that the people with differing views quit interacting with each other over it. I disagree. The South started out as agrarian culture and remained agrarian right through WW I and the 1920s. It wasn't until the 30s and the invention of the air conditioner that other forms of commerce could get a foothold. The North started out agrarian but because of poor soil conditions, it began to be more directly tied into commerce and trade. By 1860, the industrial revolution had taken hold and manufacturing was beginning to grow in the North. Slavery made sense for the South because of its plantation style farming. It was not so much a single overpowering idea but rather something that made sense from an economic POV. Northerners never developed a need for slaves because its farming practices were much smaller and less successful. Frankly, I think the North had other axes to grind with the South besides slavery...after all, few northerners were all that enlightened about 'blackies'. Most thought they were an inferior species although slavery was a bit distasteful to many of them. It was the South's agrarian lifestyle coupled with their refusal to buy a lot of the North's products. At the time, it was very fashionable for women of the South to go to Paris for their clothes or to buy their products from France..........and the ties between the South and France were generally stronger than those between the North and the South. In addition, the South was all too willing to sell its cotton to Europe rather than the North. I think economics played a strong role in the war even though slavery was touted as the reason for the conflict. As with most wars, the reasons are often complicated and the real reasons often hidden. Then they develop different ways of life through little, inconsequential changes which don't spread to those still isolated by the one big difference. It's elementary evolution theory. Way too short a time frame......although I must admit many southerners seem to have evolved more slowly than the rest of us.....present company excluded of course! LOL! ted