Most immigrants from Europe during the early twentieth came from the south and east.
The North relied mostly on industry for income but the South was almost all agricultural. Without the slaves they didn't have many people left to work the land.
30% were unemployed by the start of 1933.
It was "B. Philippe de Vitry" who was a Medieval composer and was also a politician and author famous for his writings on music theory, since at the time not many people knew the fundamentals of such theory.