Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1899 — TWO TYPES OF THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

TWO TYPES OF THE SOUTH.

Guriy Settlers from England Leave Their Traces to This Day. The two leading types of southern ' population are plainly the Virginian and the South Carolinian of the tidewater. For this fact there are both historical and physiographic reasons, declares the Atlantic. Virginia was the first and South Carolina the second southern colony to be settled by well-to-do Englishmen who desired to found permanent homes. The introduction of slavery and its application to staple crops speedily gave an aristocratic tone ' to society in both provinces, but between them, in North Carolina, and to the south of them, in Georgia, there were fewer wealthy settlers and no staple crops to speak of, so that from the first society in these provinces was more or less democratic in spite of slavery. Before, however, the gentry of the coast could expand and occupy the country lying between the Blue Ridge and the AUeghanies and beyond the latter range of mountains a very differer sort of people had moved in and talcuu possession. Among these people, ?*»ing to their habits and the nature their soil, slavery could take no strong hold, hence they remained democratic and distinct from their tidewater neighbors, as, indeed, they are to this day.