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In reply to the discussion: What is Southern Heritage? [View all]PATRICK
(12,228 posts)who encouraged the agrarian trade machine that needed cheap labor to make cotton exports "competitive" with the other colony, India's impoverished legions. So following Spain's example and being closer to Britain(also culturally as brethren) slaves were introduced and massive land barons whose reach and aristocracy and tyranny got worse as it got further to the coast.
In other words, the same economic suckerdom for the locals that was most easily passed down upon them with same consolation of religion given to slaves and whites alike in place of actual economic democracy even in the modest form that might be wrested from the ruling elites closer to their ultimate nesting places of financial power. As with cotton, oil, military industrial complex, even though losing the Civil War broke a lot of that cycle
if only they had been able(or allowed) to profit from it. Unfortunately the North in some ways was like having Great Britain right next door. They and did impose their authority over this second "Revolution" which was ironically very much like a will to return to the same "good old days" of trade with dominator Britain.
Their current nostalgia smells just as bad today. It needs suckers, aristocracy and slaves and waves the flag of freedom from the first revolutionary lesson lesson unlearned.
Too much tradition of suckerdom to even understand alternatives to the overarching historical formation of the region.