中国人到美国南部地区定居,非但在时间上较西部和东北部为晚,且在数量上也较为稀少。这是因为在殖民地时期以及美国独立后,濒墨西哥湾的今美国南部地区数易主人,脱离了沟通东西方商业交往的航运主渠道。独立后,美国南部奴隶制棉花种植业不断发展,种植园经济不断向南部和西南部扩张,虽然种植园主感到劳动力缺乏,但奴隶制生产方式阻碍了欧洲自由劳动力的移 Chinese people settled in the southern part of the United States, not only in terms of time later than in the west and north-east, but also in terms of their numbers. This is because after the colonial period and the independence of the United States, the majority owners of the current southern United States in the Gulf of Mexico were out of the main shipping channels for business exchanges between the East and the West. After independence, slavery in the southern United States continued to grow cotton farming and plantation economies continued to expand in the south and southwest. Although plantation owners felt a lack of labor force, slavery mode of production hindered the shift of free labor force in Europe