what are the cotton growing region in the world
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It infested all U.S. cotton growing areas. It devastated the industry and the people working in the American south. The boll weevil became a serious pest. Cotton growers were going bankrupt because of the drought and the boll weevils. Economic losses were significant due to the relatively high cost of growing cotton.
The ones fighting for the South - the cotton-growing slave-states.
Because they had to pay people to harvest it
N&S Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. (Probably more)
South was depending too much on cotton.And I think that they needed a new investment which would explain why they depended on the cotton.