Where did the cultural difference between North and South Europe come from?

Yeah, the reason Sicily didn't develop wasn't because of mafia, it was because of Bourbon mismanagement. Charles di Napoli was one of the greatest kings Naples ever had, but his successors couldn't match his success. Instead even though they were the richest and largest Italian state they succumbed to terrible mismanagement and decline whereas the North didn't. Also another thing is the North was originally many city states that all competed amongst each other and became highly developed as a result. The south meanwhile only even hosted Amalfi which didn't last too long and throughout the medieval times was pretty much under one or two kingdoms (there were exceptions). Not to mention of course that the Po Valley is pure gold in terms of potential for population growth, meanwhile the south though still Mediterranean in climate is much dryer.

Sabaud mismanagement played a big part as well.
 
Two thousand years ago, Southern Latin Europe was culturally Roman, based on efficiency, order and rule following. Germanic Northern Europe was wild passion-following tribes. So how did the culture flip? It can't be just down to geography, seeing northern France is far more relaxed about things than Swabia just over the border.
I don't know why things have changed so much. We're looking at 2000 years of history, so it's unlikey to be have a simple answer. However, from Ancient Greece to Napoleonic France, southern Europe was ahead of Northern Europe. Northern European superiority is a fairly recent thing.
 
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Because of trade with ancient Egypt, these countries evolved to become economic powerhouses. The north was just isolated.
 
Industrialization. Northern Europe got going sooner and stronger, incentivizing rule-based deference to a greater degree.

This doesn't make much sense at all to me. Places like Iceland, Norway and Finland are some of the countries with the must rule-based, polite societies, yet they did not see industrialisation. Meanwhile France, northern Italy and northern Spain did see industrialisation and have a much more southern mindset.
 
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