What is the social differences between the North and South during the Civil War?

Answer 1

The North was a highly industrialized society fed by a large number of small family farms. It had a relatively large and mobile middle class, and consisted of a large diversity of ethnic groups, even though most of the nationalities were Caucasian and Protestant, but with a sizable minority of Irish Catholics. The South was primarily agrarian, largely due to a small number of large single-product cash-crop plantations owned by a wealthy minority of Caucasian Protestants, with a concentration of Catholics in and around Louisiana, but whose labor force consisted of a mix of first, second, and third generation African slaves. There was practically no manufacturing base in the South.

Answer 2

During the Civil War, social differences between the North and South included attitudes towards slavery (the North opposed it while the South relied on it for their economy), levels of industrialization (the North was more industrialized than the agrarian South), and cultural norms and values (such as emphasis on individualism in the North and a stronger sense of community in the South).