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South
Culture 
The planters were the aristocracy --the upper class--of the south, many of them descendants of wealthy colonial coastal planters .
SInce the plantatios were far apart, the people developed their own communities.
Recretional activities included things such as fox hunting, dancing, horseracing, and watching cockfights.
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Economy
cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane and indigo were grown in great quantities.
Crops known as cash crops were raised on large farms, known as plantations, which were supported by slave labor.
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In the first sixty years of the 1800's, the slave population quadrupled.
Transportation
Steamships and railroads, affected the south because products could more easily be sold to more distant markets.
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10,000 miles of railroad spread across the southern states.
Population
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Cities
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Plantations were so large and so distant from each other that they became almost self-sufficient, like small towns.
Most Southerners lived on farms, spread out out in separate communities---the planters scattered along the coastal plains and the small farmers in the backcountry.
Since the economy was based on agriculture, industries and towns developed at a slower pace than in the North.
Climate/Geography :
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The Atlantic Coastal Plain, an area of fertile, rich soil and swamps, covered much of the southeast.
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Generally warm and sunny, with long, hot, humid summers, mild winters, and heavy rainfall.
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