Raichur, however, did not long remain in southerners' hands.
On the other hand, households in the northeastern and western regions paid a significantly higher price for bananas, about 4 and 9 cents per pound, respectively, than the southerners.
It cannot be stated too strongly that recognition of the distinctive social relations of particular groups of southerners, as with any other peoples, is a necessary prerequisite for effective intervention.
Conservative southerners were already frustrated by the fact that over five percent of southerners were receiving welfare at the time.
Such intrusion in the past had upset the social customs and race relations of southerners.
Prior to then, southerners had blocked all such legislation through deft parliamentary manoeuvring coupled, when necessary, to filibusters.
The southerners were grateful to see an end to the northern slaving predations of their land.
His primary concern was for the tenuousness of the union, and he did not want to do anything to alienate a large group of southerners.
