Culture and Economy: South Vs. New England

The most striking and important difference between New England and Southern colonies regarding culture and economy is the class distinction based on wealth. New England colonies were absent of such a wealth and class distinction because their colonies were not so strictly based on commercial agriculture. The South was focused on mass-producing and selling tobacco while the New England colonies in the North were focused on religious life in some cases, such as Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, and little more than subsistence farming in other cases such as Rhode Island and New Jersey. The large commercial agriculture in the North was in Pennsylvania but since there were so many Quakers in Pennsylvania and their faith dictates equality and peace the class disparity did not occur as pointedly (if at all). The New English economy did not have the same vicious-businessmen character as the South.
The South was marked with class distinction based on wealth on account of commercial farming and this subsequently created the culture and social hierarchy therein. New England, on the other hand, held blurry class distinctions which are negligible in the culture of the North.