And subsidizing it the North is still doing to this very day.
You ARE aware that the difference goes all the way back to New Amsterdam and what followed after? England had to literally force convicts to settle the Appalachians and spread them throughout the South just to get people to utilize the area, basically little more than a penal colony. Settlers would rather deal with the harsher winters and rocky soils of the north for farming.
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