What About the South?

1. Intro--What About It?
   1. The South as "Co-Creator" of the United States
   2. Increasing Distinctiveness
2. How Distinctive?
   1. The Defining Difference--Slavery and the Plantation
      1. Abolition of Slavery in "Free States"
      2. Persistence in South
         1. The Plantation Economy
         2. The Cotton Boom
   2. So What? Commonalities of Northerners and (White) Southerners
      1. Population--A White, NonPlantation Majority
      2. Politics
         1. (White) Democracy
         2. National Parties
      3. Economics--"Free Enterprise"
      4. Race--White Supremacy
   3. Nonetheless . . .--A Growing Divergence
      1. Antislavery
         1. Concentration in North
         2. Rejection by Nonslaveholding White Southerners
      2. Southern Decline
         1. Power in Early Republic
         2. The Blight of Slavery
            1. Unequal Opportunity for Farmers
            2. Lack of Commercial Opportunity
               1. Cities
               2. Industry
3. The Potential for Conflict
   1. Slavery as Obstacle to the "American Dream"
   2. The Threat of Slave Expansion