Despite all industrial developments, what region remained an agrarian area?

Northeast

South

North

Southwest

b. South

Explanation:

Despite all industrial developments, the South remained an agrarian area because of slavery. When the rest of the United States was becoming industrialized, slavery had been long established in the South so that industry could not take hold.

Despite significant growth in southern industry, the region remained primarily agrarian. The most important economic reality in the post-Reconstruction South, therefore, was the impoverished state of agriculture