“The grave [in the South] was dug through solid marble, but the marble headstone came from Vermont. It was in a pine wilderness but the pine coffin came from Cincinnati. An iron mountain overshadowed it but the coffin nails and the screws and the shovel came from Pittsburgh. . . . A hickory grove grew nearby, but the pick and shovel handles came from New York. . . . That country, so rich in underdeveloped resources, furnished nothing for the funeral except the corpse and the hole in the ground.”
– Henry Grady, Speech to the Bay Street Club, Boston, 1889"
Use the passage to answer the question.
What is the main idea of this excerpt?
A:By not purchasing products from its own manufacturers, the South helped enrich the North.
B:Even though the South had resources it could tap, it relied heavily on the North.
C:All the materials for a Southern burial could only be gotten from the North.
D:Because agriculture was so profitable, the South chose not to make use of its other natural resources.