Contextual Factors Affecting Southern External MED Developmental Transportation Infrastructure Strategy When we separate northern and southern economic development into two distinct regions, it is easier
Category: Formation of Deep South Political Culture
8.8 Cotton Boom Antebellum 1812 MED Economic Development: Alabama
Implementation of Alabama’s Antebellum External MED All this palaver about migrations and political culture and their shaping of Alabama’s antebellum policy systems “hits the road”
8.7 Formation of Alabama’s Cotton Belt Policy System: Intro
There is a lot of moving parts floating around in this two-module case study of the formation of the first “non-womb” Cotton Belt state: Alabama.
8.6 Cotton Belt Exodus from the Womb: Time Line and Shared Dynamics
John Weaver described the settlement of the American Cotton Belt as “a great land rush” [1]. Instead of a “gold rush” (which we are are
8.5 Cotton’s Profit Life-Cycle: Tough Times for Cotton Leads to Upcountry Industrialization
Hard times hit the Upcountry especially because its soils were wearing thin. Upcountry plantation owners replaced lost fields by buying out bankrupted neighbors, but increasingly
8.4 Deep South Political Culture Integrated Into South Carolina and Georgia State Policy Systems
We could have titled this module “South Carolina Upcountry Deep South Culture Makes its Peace with the Barbadian/Federalist South Carolina Political Culture. Formation of the
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