Yeoman farmers made up most of the Southern white society in the 1800s. Yeoman farmers owned small farms and sometimes had other farmers working for them.
No Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority of the white southern vote since 1964.
The majority is white people right now but in a few years blacks and Mexicans will be the majority while white people will be the minority!
Rich white Southern plantation owners were typically affluent landowners in the Southern United States during the antebellum period, primarily before the Civil War. They owned large estates and relied heavily on enslaved African Americans for labor to cultivate cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and sugar. Their wealth and social status were often tied to their landholdings, which positioned them as powerful figures in Southern society and politics. This system of plantation agriculture was foundational to the Southern economy and contributed to the deep social and racial divides that characterized the region.
Yes. Scalawag was the name used by Southern Democrats for white Southern Republicans who worked in Reconstruction governments.
A minority president is a president that gets elected with less than 50% of the popular vote. Abe Lincoln was a minority president, for example.
Yeoman farmers made up most of the Southern white society in the 1800s. Yeoman farmers owned small farms and sometimes had other farmers working for them.
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The dominant group in the US is often referred to as White Americans, who make up the majority of the population and have historically held positions of power and privilege in society.
No, a large majority of the southern population did not own slaves. In fact, only a small percentage of white families in the southern states owned slaves during the antebellum period.
Society was a caste-like system with poor whites at the bottom of the white social ladder.
WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. In America and much of Europe, they are considered the majority.
Poor white trash - not interested in slavery one way or the other, but a highly aggressive breed (largely Scotch-Irish), who were positively raring for a fight.
No more than any other ethnic group.
The term "white trash" is used as a disparaging term for a poor white person or white people (often perceived as being lazy and ignorant).
I'm not sure which group you are referring to. Do you mean political party? The only group that seems to have a consistent majority in Congress is white men.