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To: tejek who wrote (209300)	10/29/2004 4:59:24 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

The South started out as agrarian culture and remained agrarian right through WW I and the 1920s Southerners were not geneticly immune to heat or humidity, it was a matter of getting used to it. There is no reason that the South could not have had an industrial component to it's economy except that the institution of slavery made the agrarian sector artificially inexpensive. The slave wages were in essence a subsidy, protected by the state for agriculture. Slaves were not suitible for the industrial work unless the southerners were culturally willing to educate them. The one big separation of idea caused the two areas to evolve into different economies.