Most of the interior South (Tennessee, upland Mississippi & Alabama, N. Carolina, N. Georgia) has excellent climate and conditions to have been settled like 19th Ohio or Indiana, in a patchwork of small cities and free labor family farms
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Also, many of the resource industries that were only developed in the New South of the Gilded Age (iron mining, timber, turpentine, etc) would have been developed earlier if so much capital hadn't been sucked into slaves and cotton fields.
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Steve seems to be referring to malaria resistance. But the whole South isn't a malarial swamp. Most whites moved there before the Cotton Gin, so I think the white population mostly would have been what it was, slavery or no slavery. Too much arable land to just leave vacant.
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Which genetic adaptations?
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Watermelon seed-spitting.
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What about white sharecroppers? They couldn’t have picked cotton in the heat?
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Didn't the British Empire hack it out everywhere on earth? In tropical as well as sub-tropical climates. They didn't always have slave labor with them.
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