Third, economic prosperity prevailed in the agrarian South at the time of the debates, easing concerns about the financial burdens imposed by the tariff.

The North had experienced a similar depression during the 1830s and 1840s-with a concurrent increase in imprisonment-that the agrarian South did not.

"Outside the major metropolitan areas, it looks more like the rural, agrarian South, and that worries me."

The industrial North and its wage labor was pitted against the agrarian South and its slave labor.

The demand for printers in the agrarian South was much less, and consequently established and qualified printers were generally nonexistent throughout most of the Confederacy.

It was supposedly the Celtic values and traditions that set the agrarian South apart from the industrialized civilization developing in the North.

It was meant as a protectionist measure to help the relatively industrialized New England states against international products, but this had grave implications for the largely agrarian South.

The renaissance was a product of a mass migration of blacks from the agrarian South to the industrial North.

Subconsciously," said Mr. Prince, "the community saw Leo Frank as a corrupter of the agrarian South.

Tariffs disproportionately benefited the industrial interests of the North while causing great injury to the trade-dependent agrarian South and West.