There is no more that is bad about the south than there is about the north. They retire there because it is warm, land is generally cheaper, and goods & services are a bit less expensive.
The north has cold weather, rude people and some really crazy laws. Everyone's overcrowded and there's not much of a rural area. As if that's a good thing.
Who wants to be packed in together like sweaty sardines hating each other? Sounds like a much better way to live.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.