Thomas Jefferson on differences

[Dave Wilma]

Prof. David Blight relates the following in the words of Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s:

Northerners are cool, sober, laborious, persevering, independent, jealous of their own liberties, chicaning, superstitious, and hypocritical in their religion.​

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Southerners

...are fiery, voluptuous, indolent, unsteady, independent, zealous of their own liberties.​

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This was in the 1780s. I wonder if these words found their way into popular culture and perhaps influenced the sections' views of themselves and each other. Note the jealousness/zealousness of their own liberties.

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