All of the posts here are excellent and I thank them all very much, but yours is at the head of the class, IMHO. Very perceptive observations on culture and intertwining views on government and I had not really thought about that before. Thanks.
The Civil War/Emancipation is the best example of different views.
In my ancestors’ culture, the capitalism of Adam Smith was the ability of each adult individual to enter into voluntary contracts. The role of government was to enforce contracts. Slavery was not a voluntary contract and therefore the government (sheriff, US Marshall) should not have enforced those contracts..and indeed should have been against slave owners using force, which is a power reserved to government.
My ancestor’s saw John Brown as the solution. They saw the government as reluctant to free the slaves and being forced by radical aboltionists into acting.
But most Blacks think slavery is part of capitalism. They see the sheriff enforcing slavery as doing the bidding of the “capitalist” slave masters. They think big government waged the civil war and big government freed the slaves.
Thus they see big government as the solution. It is an unspoken, often unaware presumption of the cultural way of thinking.