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South Carolina people vs. North Carolina people (overtime) 
South Carolinians during the colonial period developed a low country agriculture system that relied upon slave labor to grow and export rice, cotton, and indigo.
Development of an urban, cultured, and cosmopolitan society made up of wealthy planters and merchants.
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People of white European ancestry account for roughly two-thirds of all the residence in South Carolina.
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Most of the population of South Carolina identifies as Christian, with Protestant being the most common affiliation. Only about 5% of the population is non-religious and 1% identifies with another religion.
North Carolinians during the colonial period were small tobacco farmers, not plantation builders.
North Carolina was poor but independent. The population was diversified with the arrival of thousands of emigrants from Scotland, Ireland, and Germany.
The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage.
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Post Civil War, African Americans moved North to find better jobs. They found better schools, but still faced constant discrimination even without the Jim Crow laws.
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Post Civil War, neither African American freedmen nor poor whites had the money to move or be apart of the westward expansion, even with the promise of free land.
Depressed economic conditions and low prices for their crops drove many South Carolina farmers off of the land and to mill villages.
African Americans were pushed out of the state by the continued agricultural depression and the ravages of the boll weevil, by social discrimination of Jim Crow laws and by increase violence.
Very few immigrants settled in South Carolina because few jobs were available due to the small number of factories and mills.
The Ku Klux Klan made life difficult for the Southern African Americans by lynching and intimidating them.
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The North was a good place for African Americans to settle because the start of World War 1 limited the amount of immigrants, who were the main industrial laborers.
The Great Migration affected the population in the Northern cities by increasing the amount of African Americans by over 60% in the larger cities.
It was difficult for African Americans to find housing because the larger cities were crowded and rising rents for homes.
Because of the industrial growth in North Carolina it created, business profits to help build towns, industries shaped the "working class", and it increased number of middle-class professionals.
In the 1920s industries boomed and the farm economy suffered partly due to the boll weevil attacking the cotton crop.
Laws changed for children, they were required to go to school and child labor laws made it illegal for them to work in the mills.
Some parents did not support child labor laws because it was less people in their family working which mean less money.
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More than 65,000 South Carolinians served in WW1.
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Camps in Columbia, Greenville, and Spartanburg helped with the war effort by training soldiers for the war.
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Almost 2,100 South Carolinians died in WW1.