Describe the social differences between the southern and new england colonies?

Question: Describe the social differences between the southern and new england colonies!?
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The new England colonies were settled by those seeking religious freedoms!. England was caught up in the reformation and different religious groups had emerged that didn't want to ad hear to the established Church of England!. Massachusetts was settled by Puritans, Pennsylvania by Quakers, etc!.

The southern colonies (Maryland the exception, as it was catholic) was settled by either those seeking profit, or by political dissidents!. Those that came for profit established plantations and many of them came from British aristocracy!. The political refugees included the Scots-Irish that came in the early to mid 1700's and settled in Appalachia, and Georgia for example was a penal colony!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The southern colonies socially were more of a transplanted system of English aristocracy with rigid social status, which came with the south's "gentlemen's plantations" The new england colonies didnt have as rigid of a social status, and didnt have the strict structures of southern plantation society!.Www@QuestionHome@Com