If you believe that, then you don't understand the old south. They had a very strong sense of community and kinship with one another. They would have never did that to their own. Things are changing alot with the migration of so many people from all over and foreign countries, too. But the old southerners weren't like you described them.
Slaves as well often regarded the farms and homes as theirs, in interest since not in possession. The white folk were ‘their people’. They could criticize their white folk, but you better not.
When I was in grade school our janitor asked us about some Civil War site we had visited. He was about 60, I suppose, and he proudly informed us that his mother as a young girl had been one of Mrs Robert E Lee’s house maids. He valued his connection to that family and to American history.
Find a copy of Weevils in the Wheat, interviews conducted in the 30s with elderly blacks who had lived as slaves in their youth. Most people would be surprised at what they had to say. Today’s south-haters wouldn’t like the book at all, there’s almost none of the vitriol they possess.
The people of the Old South may not have been that way, but history shows that the rotten Confederate States of America abused and exploited their own people.
The Confederacy shows what happens when a free people entrusts power to a nonproductive political class.
From Jefferson Davis to Hillary and Jesse Jackson, Democrats never change.