Cultural Differences Between North And South

During the 1780s and 90s the southerners viewed the northerners as people ruined by city living, dependent on paying low wages to a hard-working underclass of immigrants and the poor. Southerners also believed that northerners culture was its commercial and industrial interests, and prosperous family-owned farms. Both North and South believed that they had different manners, habits, customs, principles, and ways of thinking. The South believed that the North spoke differently, ate differently, and worked differently

Northerners viewed the culture of the South as a largely agricultural region of small yeoman farmers as well as wealthy plantations worked by slaves. Northerners thought of the southern way of life, with its dependence on slavery,