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[quote=Anonymous]The cultural differences would first start with the settlers and the traditions that they brought with them. In New England, most of the early settlers came from Southwestern England and were puritan and idealistic. They thought that a society should be organized from the top down and all decisions should be made in the interest in improving the community collectively. While most people are not puritan today, the core of the culture still as lots of influence in how things are run today. One example is how New England towns still have town meetings. Education was important early on and available to most all residents. While this region was mostly made up of small towns, cities along the coast such as Boston and Providence grew large and developed industrially as port city. Large cities in New England received heavy immigration later on.

Virginia, Maryland, Southern Delaware, the far Northeastern section of North Carolina were settled with the idea of recreating British Manor life in the Americas. British Servants and later African slaves worked as the "peasants" of the Manor to earn profit for the Estate and the Country. Tobacco was the main crop grown at estates and society was designed to benefit only people at the top instead of the collective whole. The society was not intended to be race based but came close to being one after the heavy usage of African Slaves. However, it was never based on a West Indies style caste system like areas further south.  Servants, Slaves, and Independent farmers had few if any rights and education was only guaranteed for wealthy White Males.

While this region was very rural, cities such as Petersburg, Norfolk, Richmond, Alexandria, and Baltimore were established as trading posts and ports and developed Industrially. Cities in this region were not popular destinations for immigrants. However, Richmond and especially Baltimore received small waves of German and Jewish immigrants in the early 1800s. They came to shape the culture of these cities as they worked in industries along side poor whites, and free blacks.

Those states were settled by different people for a different reason and established different traditions, which continue to be reflected in the states' politics.
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