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Do.... do you really believe that bolded part?
Are you trying to sound ridiculous or trying to make me laugh to death?
The South had the disproportionate influence over the federal government up to this very point! Most of the Presidents were Southerners! (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, and Taylor.) And of the Northern Presidents, of which there were six, over half were elected with strong Southerner backing (Clay helped Adams, the only Northern candidate in 1824, win in the House; Martin Van Buren was the hand-picked successor of Southerner Andrew Jackson; Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan were selected with the support of Southern politicians, since the Democratic Party at the time had instituted a pro-South requirement of two-thirds voting in the convention to win the nomination, ensuring any candidate had to have Southern backing).
How about the SCOTUS? Washington's initial six were balanced - three from each section (and honestly at this time the sections were more nebulous, and arguably made up of three, not two) - while the 28 justices nominated afterward up to Lincoln's nominations (as in counting Buchanan's as the last) saw a split of 12 North, 16 South. Yup. The North certainly dominated the Federal Government there.
The history of American politics up until the 1850s is one of the South wielding disproportionate influence, particularly through the Democratic Party after Jackson since it was usually the majority party in the country and the South had a wide base of support for it. IOW, they could persuade and even eventually coerce Northern Democrats to give them pro-slavery votes in exchange for continued party unity and support on other measures. Hence the years of the infamous gag rules that forbade slavery (mostly anti-slavery) petitions to the House (a violation of a cherished civil right), the shenanigans over the annexation of Texas, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as part of the "Compromise of 1850", and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The latter helped put a final end to it since a large majority of the Northern Democrats who voted for the act were thrown out of Congress in the following election, meaning that as a group they became hardened to Southern demands and would eventually refuse to the point that Southern Democrats split the party in 1860 over Stephen Douglas' refusal to support a federal territorial slave code (and thus turn against his own Popular Sovereignty position). Northern Democrats rightly feared that if they submitted to putting even a possible territorial slave code on the plank, the Republicans would demolish them, but William L. Yancey of Alabama maneuvered the Southern delegations into making it a requirement for them to remain at the convention. We all know how that went...