Boston and Charleston were in high party times nearest alike of any two American cities.
Douglas was a Green Mountain boy.

He was born in Vermont.

As Seargent Prentiss had done he migrated beyond the Alleghanies before he came of age, settling in Illinois as Prentiss had settled in Mississippi, to grow into a typical Westerner as Prentiss into a typical Southerner.
There was never a more absurd theory than that, begot of sectional aims and the sectional spirit, which proposed a geographic alignment of Cavalier and Puritan.

When sectionalism had brought a kindred people to blows over the institution of African slavery there were Puritans who fought on the Southern side and Cavaliers who fought on the Northern side.

What was Stonewall Jackson but a Puritan?
What were Custer, Stoneman and Kearny but Cavaliers?
Wadsworth was as absolute an aristocrat as Hampton.
In the old days before the war of sections the South was full of typical Southerners of Northern birth.