Texas has never been considered the deep south.
Gonna go ahead and say that it could be C. Extent of Trade Routes
Not really. There was segregation still in the early 60s. Martin LK didn't make an appearance until his speech in 1963 and black people got the right to vote in 1965. Yet again, black people were still heavily judged and they were blamed for a lot of mistakes other people would make. So no. The white prison population was not higher.
The United States declared war on Britain in 1812. It did so because Britain refused to stop seizing American ships that traded with France—Britain's enemy in Europe. Sometimes there were also seizures of American sailors. These seizures were known as impressment