Defending Southern Heritage
a Foundation of American Liberty 

Regional Differences as a factor in War for Southern Indpendence video
from the
Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
 

The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has created several one minute videos. This video is on the Regional Differences that were a major factor resulting in War.

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Video Script:

Regional Differences

One of the biggest reasons leading to the American War Between the States was the huge difference in culture and way of life between North and South. In the North, particularly New England, manufacturing and industry provided the main source of income and jobs, and most people lived in cities. In the South, however, most people still lived in rural settings and farmed for a living.

Northerners had also become much more secular in their outlook on life and readily accepted even religions which questioned the authority of the Bible and orthodox Christianity. Southerners, however, continued to have a deep love and abiding respect for the Word of God.

Northern cities were crowded with people from every country of Europe and even beyond, while the Southern states continued to be made up almost entirely of people from the British Isles, with a large majority of them originating from Ireland and Scotland. These people in the South had a much stronger tradition of ties to the land and to family clans.

Northern city-dwellers tended to believe in bigger, stronger civil government, while most Southerners felt that there should be less government in their day-to-day lives.

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