In the 1840s and 1850s, the political power base of the South shifted to
a. old southern states like Virginia and South Carolina.
b. yeoman farmers and away from planters.
c. planters who wanted to modernize southern society.
d. southwestern boom states such as Mississippi and Arkansas.
d
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