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Thanks to slavery, in the South capital and labor were combined in nearly four million sweating field hands picking cotton and planting rice.
Race had never been a defining element in successful nation states. The true definition always depended far more on distinctions in language, culture, and political institutions. Southerners spoke precisely the same language as Northerners, so there was no distinction there.