How did many southerners view the North in the mid-1800s?

Answer 1

Southerners thought that the North's wage labor system would be good for the South.

Answer 2

Many southerners in the mid-1800s viewed the North with suspicion and resentment. They saw the North as economically and politically dominant, and believed that its growing industrial power threatened the traditional agrarian way of life in the South. Southerners also resented what they perceived as interference by the North in their institution of slavery.