Different people with different perspectives do come along with time.
Build more relationships with people that don't seemto be such as you. Don't assume others are intentionally being difficult. Never try and change people maximize their strengths. Encourage business disagreements and healthy conflict. Curiously approach people who are different than you. Invite and interact people into discussion, healthy debate and exchange. Look for the common purpose, what you have got in common.
For an example if you are meeting a new group of people and you want to build a rapport with them then to set within them you have to make yourself aswell as others also equally comfortable so that you can jam along and then move ahead.
This is the way it would be easy for everyone with different perspectives to come along and stay together.
Southern states were known as the cotton kingdom because the cotton population in the south was rapidly growing. Rich plantation owners would grow cotton and sell them to the New England region to make clothes etc.
According to functionalism, men fill instrumental roles, women fill expressive roles, and this arrangement benefits society. Functionalism is when the specific expected role of certain group or people are filled in perfectly according to what is expected. This in turn benefitted the whole community or society.