Creating An Old South Analysis

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Looking back on the years leading up to Florida statehood it is tempting to believe that the outcome was inevitable and to ignore the disagreements that occurred at the time. This view was shared by planters who imagined those years as stable and lacking any significant changes or crises. Documents written at the time along with books such as Creating an Old South contradict this view and reveal a number of divisive issues including geographic divisions and disagreement over the ultimate fate of Indians that reveal that the idea of an unchanging South was just an illusion with no basis in reality. In the years leading up to statehood it became clear that there were divisions between East, West, and Middle Florida. This is shown by the memorial

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