Assuming that this is related to Mississippi Burning, the Southerners were very community oriented, they didn't want the Northern "Hoover Boys" (reference to Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI at the time) interfering in their problems when they had people to deal with it anyway. Also, they did not see the racial disputes as a problem, this was how they lived and black people were not "humans".
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Southerners opposed the Wilmot Proviso. This is because the Wilmot Proviso established peace with Mexico, and the land that Mexico owned was in the South.
The South found their entire way of life change, including politically, with government loaded with Republicans, freedman, and carpetbaggers. White Southerners would use any means to block blacks and Republicans from further entering politics which included violence. The federal government sent military troops to the major cities in the South in an attempt to stem the violence.
The South found their entire way of life change, including politically, with government loaded with Republicans, freedman, and carpetbaggers. White Southerners would use any means to block blacks and Republicans from further entering politics which included violence. The federal government sent military troops to the major cities in the South in an attempt to stem the violence.
Most southerners lived on plantations during the 1800's. As a result the South during the 1800's had a primarily agricultural based economy.
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The Doctrine of Nullification became popular in the South because it allowed for the states to abide by their own laws when they thought the laws of the Federal government were not suited to their government, or were unconstitutional. This gave rise to the states in the South making their own rules about slavery.
scakawags changed the government in the south by bringing the republican ideas to the politics of south white southerners were referred a scalawags by their enemies carpetbaggers won in most of the cases and that led to scalawags moving towards
South had no government. The North was established and had the United States constitution as well as the leadership of the president, a military, and congress.
Southerners wanted to force the federal government to provide the same transportation improvements in the South that had benefited the West, Southerners believed that Congress was controlled by an alliance of leaders from the Northeast and the West, the 1828 tariff hit the South especially hard economically, Southerners wanted to divide the United States into two separate countries
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most white southerners were non-slaveholding family farmers
Southerners thought the federal government was benefiting one region over another
The Northeast and West wanted the government to spend money on transportation to help transport goods. Southerners opposed this because the money to pay for the improvements would come from tariffs, and southerners did not want an increase in tariffs.
They were southerners.
Because they live in the south