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y ports and financial centers do they have in Oklahoma?
Florida has ports and Financial centers (Miami), how about New Orleans and the other red states ports? Ports are geographic, and there are several ports in red states.
Historically, 100th meridian west:
In the United States, this meridian roughly marks the boundary between the semi-arid climate in the west and the humid continental and humid subtropical climates in the east - Wiki
So to the left (West) of that meridian crops need frequent irrigation and we built a huge irrigation system. The Comstock lode was there and while it was there, times were good. A lot of people who moved into that area left before the irrigation projects because it was too difficult to make a living. Irrigation is being threatened by changing weather patterns.
Ya know that part of Oklahoma that sticks out above the Texas panhandle? That's due to Texas having slavery. So the South became dependent on King Cotton, waged a war over slavery, and seems to not have recovered due to its culture. Adams visited the South and deemed the culture as "dissipated". The plantationers were generally aristocratic wannabees, non first-sons from Europe and their progeny. The Appalachians were settled by Scots and people from the English Scottish border who were generally characterized as spending time fishing and fighting, and making whiskey.
SNIP In terms of social status, New England was also less stratified than other colonies. Most of the colonists were free men and women, some were minor gentry, but none were aristocrats, members of the highest strata of English society. WIKI SNIP The culture was that you had to be industrious and also give back to the community. They did and they also wagon trained to the Washington, Oregon area where Dope lives.
So there's a lot more to that than just ports and financial centers growing up where ports are, and more than I've mentioned.,
