How was North Alabama different from Maycomb County, according to Scout in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

Inof 's
, we learn that 's new first-grade teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, has
recently moved to Maycomb from Winston County in North Alabama.
Scout notes that, upon hearing this, the children whispered among themselves for fear she may
"prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that
region."

Scout continues to explain that Winston County considers itself
to be so different from the rest of Alabama that it seceded from the state of
Alabama when Alabama seceded from the Union in 1861. Scout gives the following
reasons for the differences between Winston County and the rest of
Alabama:

North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big
Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background. (Ch.
2)

Not all of Scout's comments about North Alabama can
be historically supported, which shows she is...

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