Good luck with that dude. Hope you weren’t relying on this spot for an answer to your homework seeing how you asked this a week ago and I’m the first (and so far only) response.

The southern colonies were far more agrarian and far less industrialized, a trend that continued into the nineteenth century. Obviously, the southern view of slavery was different from the northern view, and the southern economic engine was based on slave labor. The free people of the south, overall, were probably a far less ethnically and culturally diverse lot than the free people of the north, with the exception of the French-speaking groups in Louisiana – who, however, regarded themselves as separate from the others in the region, whom they called “Americans” – they themselves did not identify as Americans until far later. I think it is also fair to say that the northern colonies sustained a viable middle class to a far greater extent than the southern ones, where a few people enjoyed great wealth and many lived in a condition of chronic want and misery. This was less true in some southern colonies than others – slavery was far less common in North Carolina than in most southern colonies, and NC had a middle class of artisans, tradesmen, and farmers. And Louisiana had a prosperous middle class that included whites, blacks, and biracial people. It seemed that the vigorous local economy there allowed many people to earn enough money to purchase their freedom and establish themselves in commerce.