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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
honestly white people wouldn't even live in florida all that much prior to air conditioning. there's a good reason those 13 colonies stopped at georgia.
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That's actually probably mostly due to malaria. There's also a good reason why slavery stopped at the Mason-Dixon line, as that's around the latitude where the climate for malaria becomes unsuitable---malaria needs a year-round average temperate above a certain degree, and that doesn't occur above the Mason-Dixon line. White colonists in the South died like mother****ers from malaria back then, which is why they imported so many slaves, because they came from parts of the world where they had malaria---unlike Europe---and were therefore more resistant to it. The entire history of the US with slavery was actually very much dependent on one simple microbe.
Same reason why most of the European forts on the coast of Africa in the early days were manned by only a few whites at a time. Otherwise they'd just die.
Malaria and the Mason-Dixon – State of the Planet