southern state

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Southern states had a simple corporation law because they did not have many corporations.
In 1865, three of twelve (25 percent) southern states had such provisions, compared with six of sixteen (38 percent) northern states.
By 1876, four northern states, three southern states, and two western states offered multiple classes of stock in some form or another.
There followed years of defiance, delay and evasion by southern states and localities, which produced token school desegregation.
Leaders of poor southern states were particularly eager for increased federal assistance for these needy populations.
On the whole, though, land gifts in dowry are rare and tend to be confined to the southern states.
That trade took a blow when five southern states decided to bulk purchase and distribute direct to their own schools.
The three southern states remain for the most part at the bottom of that group.
By 1903, most southern states used the primary; by 1915, all did.
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