Civil War Question

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30. "Low" commitment to public education doesn't even come close. One state even outlawed public ed.

Not a single northern state was without public education.
Not a single southern state *had* public education.

The old South was dominated by descendants of Norman aristocrats who managed to politically rule the United States prior to 1860 despite being outnumbered. The ascendancy of Anglo-Saxons for the first time sent them scurrying for the exits as much as the desire to extend slavery. During the Civil War two proposals were put forth in the South to replace African slaves with Anglo-Saxon slaves.

Poll taxes and literacy tests existed prior to the Civil War and was intended to keep the Celtic underclass where they were: under the dominion of their Norman overlords. The old South opposed public education for the same reason. They also opposed the expansion of railroads and canals as these provided infrastructure for new industry which challenged their feudal style dominance by land owners.

Slaves and plantations were a modern adaptation of peasants and baronies.

Southern Colonies:
The Virgin(ia) Queen
Queen Mary(land)
King Charles I and II or King Carolus(ina) in Latin
King Georg(ia)
Rhode (Island and Plantation)

Northern Colonies:
Massachusettes, Delaware and Connecticut native names
New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire (for the home they left behind)
William Penn(sylvania) for a populus politician who often fought the Crown

The North was founded by people seeking to flee the British Empire. The South was founded by those seeking to expand the British Empire. They conquered Tejas. They conquered Baja California, then lost it. They conquered Guatemala, then lost it. They invaded Cuba ... twice.

South Carolina had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the American Revolutionary War. They surrendered to the British months into the war and ordered the Continentals to stay out. Their first call for secession was several decades prior to the Civil War.

Their confidence at the onset of the Civil War was based on their belief in racial superiority over the hated Anglo-Saxon. Their early superiority in cavalry was due to their keeping a form of the old knighthood alive.