Thus equipped, benefiting from the institutional weakness resulting from the Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil, São Paulo combined its economic power with the electoral strength of Minas Gerais and established coffee with milk politics, which resulted in a change in federalism in Brazil, the results of which are still visible today. For this, the business vision of his businessmen, who were mainly coffee growers and even in the empire had learned to use political power in defense of their economic interests, also competed. They immediately perceived the opportunity of introducing foreign immigrants and subsidized them with resources from the province, since the imperial government paid more attention to the establishment of colonial nuclei than to salaried immigration. With the new situation created by the institution of the republican regime, they were able to expand their means of action. From then on, until the 1929 crisis, they did not lose sight of the expansion and defense of the product that sustained the region's economy.