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New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania made up for their out migration with very high birth rates, and international immigration. The south did not have those demographic features.
I have grave doubts on that IQ claimGrant had the fighting skills of a pit bull. Lee was a general.
Supposedly, grant had the lowest IQ of any US president.
That's why we have these discussion groups.It's one thing to have an opinion; it's another thing to express it and expose one's ignorance.
Bad writing do not equal low IQ. A person can have a high IQ even if he never learned to read/write.
If the Confederacy had tried to exist as a separate country, the free line would have moved down to the Ohio River. Slavery would have become concentrated in the deep south.
There were about 50,000 large cotton and sugar operations in the south prior to the war. That supported about 10% of the population. Most of the rest of the southern population was poor and even desperately poor.
The slaves where "desperately poor" ;-)but I doubt your description of 90% of the Southern population as being "poor or even desperately poor"
This has been around for a while. I can't vouch for how true it is but it appears authentic.
Slave ownership by state
Supposedly, grant had the lowest IQ of any US president.
And I doubt there was any reliable method of measuring that subjective trait then.
They don't measure the IQ of historical figures. They estimate it based on what they've produced. It's simply a matter of comparison. Writing is especially easy to do because computers today allow you to examine the writing of ancient figures. Paintings, sculpture are more difficult. Music is also fairly east to use as an estimator.
Grant was a graduate of West Point. He was right in the middle.
McClellan graduated second in his class and only because one other guy beat him in drawing. As I remember, MacArthur was first. Custer was last.