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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1704335" data-attributes="member: 2189">During the Civil War, about 70% of the white population of the south did not nor ever did own slaves and yet these same people with a passion fought fearlessly on behalf of the south against the Union cause.&nbsp; This to me raises the question why?&nbsp; The south for the most part held to a kind of English aristocracy with the big land owners as the nobility and a gentry class who acted as a kind of managerial class and a social class that maintained the allegiance to the nobility to keep things goings.&nbsp; The rest of the whites were little more than subsistence farmers who were seen as of an order not far above the slaves and in some cases lower than certain slaves.&nbsp; But why would southern whites fight to defend this?Attorney Gordon Rhea, a former US Attorney,&nbsp; in an address to the Charleston Library Society in Jan. 2011&#039; offers some worthy insight to consider.<a href="http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/why-non-slaveholding.html" target="_blank">Why Non-Slaving Owning Southerners Fought</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1704335, member: 2189"] During the Civil War, about 70% of the white population of the south did not nor ever did own slaves and yet these same people with a passion fought fearlessly on behalf of the south against the Union cause. This to me raises the question why? The south for the most part held to a kind of English aristocracy with the big land owners as the nobility and a gentry class who acted as a kind of managerial class and a social class that maintained the allegiance to the nobility to keep things goings. The rest of the whites were little more than subsistence farmers who were seen as of an order not far above the slaves and in some cases lower than certain slaves. But why would southern whites fight to defend this? Attorney Gordon Rhea, a former US Attorney, in an address to the Charleston Library Society in Jan. 2011' offers some worthy insight to consider. [URL='http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/why-non-slaveholding.html'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Why Non-Slaving Owning Southerners Fought[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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