This is known as the Mudsill Theory, and there's some thought that the slaveowning classes encouraged this thinking to keep poor whites under their control, willing to fight and die to protect an economic system that did not benefit them.
You understand jack squat about how a southerner thinks. This Yankee naval gazing is amazing.
291 posted on 03/20/2015 6:33:22 PM PDT by central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)