It’s like the South has/had two groups, blacks(slaves) and rich white guys(plantation owners). Everyone else that existed then, and now for that matter, are invisible.
Poor whites were almost as screwed by the Slavers’ system as the slaves. A huge minority of the former could not read so had little ability to resist the Ruling Class’s idiocy.
But the hill country folk was opposed to the War For the Slavers and had to be DRAFTED into the Slavers’ armies. W. Carolinas, N. Ala., N. Ga., N. Arkansas, W. Virginia and E. Tennessee saw Slaver Impressment officers seize those who fled service in the Slaver armies. Over 100,000 from these regions became soldiers in the Union armies to fight those destroying their homeland.
But we know how Scarlett felt about the poor whites don’t we? After all “Gone With The Wind” has a whole episode wherein the NOBLE SLAVER WIFE dies from nursing the po’ white trash woman. I’ll try and keep my history on the level of GWtW so you will understand.
That is that class warfare mentality thing........only the rich and the rest the poor..........that some of this crowd talks about.
They never consider that there were dirt farmers, who had land but no money. Some owned slaves that worked just as everybody else did on the farms.
I liked “Gone With the Wind” but it is evident that Margaret Mitchell’s depiction by Selznick and Fleming has unfortunately degraded into the have and have not struggles common in today’s class struggle culture.