How did Southern states and Northern states differ in their view of how a state’s population should be counted?

Southern states wanted enslaved people included in their population totals because those totals affected representation in Congress, even though enslaved people could not vote. Northern states generally opposed counting enslaved people fully for representation. The compromise was to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation, so A is correct.

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