The federal government was funded largely by trade duties and tariffs from the s

The federal government was funded largely by trade duties and tariffs from the south. The south was more likely to ally with the new territories. The north would have been not only the minority tax supplier but the minority faction in a contest for political power over the continent, between vast agrarians and small northern industrialists. We still have the same issues between coasts and center. Because dense urban immigrant cities generate demand for central authority because of the powerlessness of people under such diversity. The opposite is true of lower population density.

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