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My goodness, firing up that wacky wayback machine once again, I see, darkly attributing some vaguely Hitlerian concept, a century prior to the advent of Nazism.

Hitler was not not the first to subscribe to a master race belief, he was just the most notorious. Racial supremacy was key to antebellum Southern society. Davis described blacks as "our inferior, fitted expressly for slavery..." Stephens said that the great truth was "...the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition..." William Harris of Mississippi wrote, "This new union with Lincoln Black Republicans and free negroes, without slavery, or, slavery under our old constitutional bond of union, without Lincoln Black Republicans, or free negroes either, to molest us. If we take the former, then submission to negro equality is our fate. if the latter, then secession is inevitable." Ont the list goes on. The South's culture, it's society, it's way of life was built on slavery. Acceptance of slavery, by definition, requires a master race - one does not enslave one's equals otherwise one might be enslaved themselves.

There was no "whole southern society," as if it or anyplace else was some sort of monolith. There were entire regions of the south that did not embrace slavery.

For example?

I suggest you make the attempt to move beyond the bizarre pop history taught in public school and actually read a little.

Any suggestions?

Quakers, Moravians, Republican strongholds in the Appalachians opposed to the point of actually splitting off (West Virginia) or attempting to do so (the abortive attempt to revive the Free State of Franklin) ... all that means nothing when you buy into the whole, oddly hypnotic and historicist "slave power" mythos that was handed to you on a silver platter.

Outsiders from from mainstream of Southern culture, and looked upon as such by Southern society.

You've bought into the revisionism, hook line and sinker, have demonized an entire people on that basis, and have the temerity to prattle about the "master race." Do you ever listen to yourself?

Do you? Apparently to you slavery didn't exist.