Farmboys, shopkeepers, artisans, urban workers
B.
the US Interstate Highway System
Well, that would really depend. The media's coverage at the time (It is important to remember that the Watergate Scandal happened at different times, thus different media) may have been exaggerated. One major effect of the scandal however, was that it caused President Nixon to resign from office.
Because the south in large part were built on slaves. They didn't have factories or anything like the north did. They had cotton and assorted vegetables. In large part many will say that is also what lost them the war.