The correct answers are A) few resources and D) poverty.
The challenges that southern North America face are few resources and poverty.
The southern states of the US face complicated issues regarding poverty, few resources, and lack of jobs. Some state governments in the south had tried to create economic and tax incentives to corporations to install industrial plants in the southern states in order to increase the offering of jobs for the American citizens, as was the case of South Carolina and the BMW automotive plant. But expectations were too high and results too little.
