in the story north and south it never actually mentions rio de janeiro, South America exactly it just mentions South america andthats where magaret Hale brother had been throughout his travels but it seems to me as if you were born on one side you had your opinion about the other side 

It was just referenced twice however I revealed a few realities about the country from that time span some those realities are. The first couple of decades of the  of the back half of the nineteenth century addressed the beginnings of a major change in the still-youthful countries of Latin America. At the core of this progress was a developing direction of the economies of the locals to world business sectors. As Europe and North America encountered a second influx of industrialization, they started to reconsider the financial capability of Latin America; the area looked to them progressively like a fundamental wellspring of unrefined components for the growing economies of the North Atlantic.