Southern Merge (RIP Lil Eli)

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 * Without a major industry to propel many of the southern states and western portions of some of the states in the south being relegated to the newly formed African American territory, the southern states began to lose their individual identities.
 * Feeling a shared sense of loss, oppression, and struggle, the states south of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi began to view themselves as a larger collective.
 * In part in order to revive the southern economy, the southern states made this shared feeling a reality and merge into one large state, deemed the Southern Territory.