Can you elaborate on that?
Oh. Well, in brief.....
On my dad’s side, people ran to W Va. The guy there was in the cavalry. They lost everything. Where they went to was ignored as a part of the post-CW economy. Small farmers, small businessmen, miners, facotry workers came out of that line of the family mostly, and they turned into hill folk, having been property owners previously.
On my mom’s side, the guy fought for the North. That side of the family were and continued to become professionals. They owned intellectual and political capital. It shows all through the ancestry and my own upbringing.
If you look at the Mason-Dixon line, you’ll see the disparity arising from which parts of what states got developed after CW I. My lineage illustrates perfectly how that split took human form.
The basis for industrialization posed a threat to the South, yes, but who owned the transport and supply lines was the key. We all know the rest, but the human cost of that has a lineage, too, like that in my own family. One side was hoy toy and the other not. The hoy toy side was and is Northern.