Like a lotta folks here, I'm from those folks in the Carolina and Georgia hills who didn't have anything.
Some of the family were even Bushwhackers...which used to have a different meaning in Eastern Tennessee of the 1860's.
But they were like that because they didn't want to fight for the Plantation owner's war. The didn't have anything except the dirt they farmed. And the children that the Home Guards came to conscript.
Lot of them fought for the South, though. Saw the Northern invasion as just that. Honorable men. Bunch of them dead now.
But the guys like the Bush's in the South....they thought nothing of them. Just dupes and rubes, fighting to keep Scarlett in glad rags in the manse, whether they knew it or not.
Bush thinks its all a big joke. He conned a whole party full of people into going along with his game, but he's been planning to backstab them from the beginning. "Little People", ya know? Not the "Natural Aristocracy", like himself and his kin.
Well he's been a good boy today. Looks like George P. is on his way to maybe being the first Brown President.
Which of course, aristocrats would demand, right?