Excerpt from The Kissimomee Prairie
It is perhaps fortunate for America - certainly it is fortunate for the present generation -that the development of the South has been held back so long. Had not the slave system, the Civil war, and the mistakes of reconstruction discouraged immigration, investment and development, the South, with its mild climate. its fertile soils and its abundance and variety of agricultural production, would have been so alluring that the subsequent settlement of the colder North would have been very difficult. But. as it was, the stream of settlement flowed North and West, with the result that that portion of our great republic in which nature is the sternest and the conditions of living the hardest, has become densely settled while the South still has vast areas of unsettled lands, and natural resources that have been little more than touched The prejudice born of habit has been so strong heretofore that half a million American citizens have migrated to Canada within the last fifteen years, and have in many instances paid more for land than they could have acquired good land for in the southern states.
But now the times have changed. The South's time has come. The historic routes of migration have been changed and even reversed.
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