Then the Scotch began to come in numbers, and families of Scotch descent from the north of Ireland.

The tone of society consequently changed from that of the early days.

The ruffian and the shiftless sank to the bottom.

There grew up in North Carolina a people, agricultural but without great plantations, hardworking and freedom-loving.
South Carolina, on the other hand, had great plantations, a town society, suave and polished, a learned clergy, an aristocratic cast to life.

For long, both North and South clung to the sea-line and to the lower stretches of rivers where the ships could come in.