Prince Constantin truly was a figure of standing in southern Germany. With a few exchanges among the great nobles of various regions, he won the support of the southern states.
For the southern German nobility, emigration overseas was actually a good thing. Southern Germany was mainly agricultural, and farmers were a group with high birth rates.
Moreover, the land in Southern Germany was fertile, and the farmers' standard of living was passable. In ordinary years, they bred without restraint, but the moment famine or disaster struck, things became untenable.
Southern Germany already had a high population density, and the nobles' estates themselves did not lack people. Naturally, they could not be bothered with whether those disaster victims lived or died. The land was in the nobles' hands anyway; if you would not farm it, someone else would.
Nor was Southern Germany's industrial level high compared with Prussia and Austria, so it could not absorb the surplus population.
Thus, unemployed farmers could only seek their own way out. Previously, most southern German farmers had gone to the United States.
It was not that conditions in the United States were so wonderful, but that German immigrants truly had nowhere else to go. European countries rejected immigrants for reasons of religion, population, and so on, while Britain had once coaxed many Germans into going to North America in order to develop it.
Among those Germans who went to the Americas, a small number might rise through the ranks, but more saw little improvement in their lives. The earlier the period, the harsher the living conditions for German immigrants. Many German immigrants became so-called "indentured servants" upon arriving in the United States, their status only slightly higher than that of black slaves.
Yet due to historical inertia, coupled with the United States' increasingly improved