Because it was warmer then the other parts so crops could grow
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South Carolina's staple crops were rice and indigo. http://www.sparknotes.com/101/us_history_one/colonial_life/southern_colonies.html
All crops. To plant rice in Georgia, to grow / pick cotton, to built roads and levies, to harvest sugar, to grow tobacco, to work in houses, raise the white planters children, to dig the ditches, and to do or make what they were told to do. They were property.
Tobacco
It used slave labor to grow cash crops for the world market.
The first economic change was the introduction of cash crops in Africa which led to decline of food crops. A political change was the introduction of administrative systems.