The center of the manufacturing of textiles switched from New England to the South after 1880 because
D) cheaper Southern labor and lower taxes enticed the textile industry to move to the South.
Explanation:
The center of the manufacturing of textiles was in New England for a long time until the civil war made the things a lot different.
The New England was the site for the development of more industries and was in between of an economic boom but the textile industry faced losses there as the main produce used for it came from the South which had its economy collapse after the civil war.
So, textile industries switched from New England to the South to drive low the cost of labor as well as resuscitate the working class of the south.