[Ditto]

"...the people of the East cannot reconcile their habits, views, and interests with those of the South and West."

Was that the 'habit' of owning other people, or some other habit?

[billbears]

No as you and others on this thread seem to constantly avoid, it was the issue of the north becoming a strong manufacturing area and the South and West sticking mainly to agriculture and the ill gotten gains that the north proceded to take from the South in the form of taxes both tariffs and duties