If farms are smaller / society is less agrarian / agricultural productivity is higher then urbanization rate is higher (agriculture can't absorb as much surplus labor) and elites are less likely to be agrarian in basis
That's one take. Another take is they are full of mulattos who spent centuries spreading their Mohammed therebye given them a lower than average IQ and inferior culture to the point you might as well be in southern Libya.
Why were the North's elite "predominantly mercantile and industrial rather than agricultural" and is it tied to malaria in some way I didn't catch?
If farms are smaller / society is less agrarian / agricultural productivity is higher then urbanization rate is higher (agriculture can't absorb as much surplus labor) and elites are less likely to be agrarian in basis
That's one take. Another take is they are full of mulattos who spent centuries spreading their Mohammed therebye given them a lower than average IQ and inferior culture to the point you might as well be in southern Libya.