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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Another still more striking proof may be adduced. Almost
all the inhabitants of the territory of the Union are the
descendants of a common stock; they speak the same language, they
worship God in the same manner, they are affected by the same
physical causes, and they obey the same laws. Whence, then, do
their characteristic differences arise? Why, in the Eastern
States of the Union, does the republican government display vigor
and regularity, and proceed with mature deliberation? Whence
does it derive the wisdom and the durability which mark its acts,
whilst in the Western States, on the contrary, society seems to
be ruled by the powers of chance? There, public business is
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