What about the British isle and the Nordic region?
Lack of education, bad choices, like doing drugs and under-employment/unemployment are the three main factors of poverty in the U.S. I think because of low-wage jobs and lack of education/not being able to pay for university people make bad choices or believe the choices they made were the only way for them to survive, make a living, get through their situation, or escape from it.
The first option:
Neither side won the war, still, Americans felt more national pride after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans.
Technically, the British won the war, however, it is true that the young republic (the United States) created a sense of shared national pride.
