The cultural differences between the New Englanders, frugal merchants and yeoman farmers reared in a Puritan environment, even such a sophisticated man as Adams, and the typically Anglican gentry that constituted the educated and hence governing class in the Southern colonies, was as great as the cultural difference today between an Upper West Side of Manhattan graduate of Harvard, and the owner of small retail service business in Texas.
What is remarkable is that the submerged (but didn't completely put aside) their cultural and regional differences in the creating of the American Experiment, from the War of Independence through the adoption of the Constitution.
It is remarkable. I loved the part of the Adams bio when the author described the Virginians riding into Philadelphia on grand horses with their appearance being that of princes. The Philadelphians were amazed with them, they were like grand royalty. I loved that. Adams was so different and he and Jefferson were close for years. That is amazing to me. And I do believe Abigail was fascinated and attracted to Jefferson until she turned on him for being so backstabbing to Adams. Abigail added immensely to Adam's life, a shame Jefferson didn't have the same influence.