Atlanta is usually considered to be far down in the South, and yet the distance from Atlanta to Boston or Minneapolis is less than to El Paso.

Again, New Orleans is nearer to Cincinnati than to Raleigh.
There were, moreover, many racial strains in the South.

The Scotch-Irish of the Piedmont in the Carolinas had, and have yet, little in common with the French of Louisiana.

The lowlander of South Carolina and the hill men of Arkansas differed in more than economic condition.

Even in the same State, different sections were not in entire accord.