Conflicts Between The North and The South The North and the South lived two totally different ways of life, leading to an inevitable conflict between these two sections. Sectionalism in the United States was started and continued because of the different views of living according to the North and the South. Economically, politically, and socially the North and the South clashed with opposing opinions of each other. The North and the South had opposing ways of how to handle their business. The North believed in a urbanized, industrial way of life, and the South's equivalent of fa