textile industries of England, by means of the spinning-jenny, the power-loom, and the factory system, furnishing machinery for the manufacture of cotton beyond the world’s supply”(Turner 45).This demand for cotton pushed all the owners of the cotton plantations west along with all the slaves (Westward Expansion and Regional Differences). “By 1821 the old South produced one hundred and seventeen million pounds, and five years later, one hundred and eighty million pounds (cotton)”(Turner 46). But in the next five years, recently settled southwest was overtaking the older section. “By 1834 the southwest had distanced the older section”(Turner 147). “What had occurred was a repeated westward movement: the cotton-plant first spread from the sea-coast to the uplands, and then, by the beginning of our period, advanced to the Gulf plains, until the region achieved supremacy in its production”(Turner 47).But as much of the people moved west, the southern states began to grow inferior to the other sections. “The westward migration of its people checked the growth of the south. It had colonized the new west at the same time that the middle region had been rapidly growing in the population and the result was that the proud states of the southern seaboard was to numerical inferiority”(Turner 57).“As the movement of capital and population to the interior went on, wealth was drained from the coast”(Turner 57). As the value of their lands declined, the people of the south coast naturally sought for an explanation and remedy to the problem (Turner 61):“Instead of applying a system of scientific farming and replenishment of the soil, there was a tendency for the planters who remained to get into debt in order to add to their possessions the farms which offered for sale by the movers. Thus there was a flow of wealth towards the west of pay for these new purchases”...
