Geographic Disparity Quotes
This is a very important quotation. In large part America's development to a great power was the result of American industry and enterprise. However, that characteristic among the Americans was rare in the South as de Tocqueville herein observes. This was one of the pernicious consequences of slavery. The Southern whites could live a very comfortable life without any ingenuity, innovation, hard work, passion or much effort of any kind. There was nothing that the South produced or created without slaves that anyone wanted or advanced the nation. Even after the Civil War and emancipation it took decades before the white Southerners began to adopt the enterprising behavior that the rest of America was known for and it would take until the 21st century for parts of the South the reach parity in this area with most of the rest of the nation.
The founding fathers assumed that as the West was settled, there would be more states in the Union. However, Morris, a bit of a snob and an aristocrat, assumed that the Westerners would be a little rougher than the established Eastern States and in particular would be more inclined to use violence and engage in war. So he wanted some provision that the original “maritime” East Coast states could not be outvoted. He did not prevail and all states were treated as equal in the Senate, but he turned out to be right about the warlike propensity. Kentucky and other “Western” areas were strong advocates for the War of 1812. The Atlantic states were much more vulnerable to a British invasion and the Maritime States’ economy could be easily ruined (and was) by a naval blocade, where the Western states’ economics were not much affected by the war. The West was also more strongly for the Mexican War, the Indian Wars, and even the Mormon Wars.
Dr. Adcock ran a telemedicine center at the Unitversity of Mississippi which broght expert medical care to over 200 rural health clinics in Mississippi. Rural America has a major physician shortage and Mississsippi rural areas are aming the most physician short communities in America.
Before abortion was made legal in New York State, most rich women who wanted abortions went to one of the Scandinavian countries where abortions were legal and safe. Poorer or even middle class women could rarely afford that. Throughout history, abortion has been readily available to the rich and upper classes, but not to the others in society until medical, safe abortions were legalized in various nations.
In France, poor immigrants tended to be clustered into suburban neighborhoods where few jobs were available, the schools were inferior, recreational facilities were sparse, and there were few opportunities to mix with other French residents. Yet, similar correlations between geography and opportunity have existed in almost all parts of the world with the most obvious reflected in the massive worldwide migration to the cities from the rural areas and countryside which took place in the United States in the 20th century and most other nations in the latter part of that century and the beginning of the 21st. Chances in life have been and are very much determined by geography.
