Plantation aristocrat
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In the New World, especially in the southern United States, Brazil and Hispanic America with substantial Mestizo and Indio populations, the institution of large semi-feudal semi-commercial estates created, from the 16th century to contemporary era, a class of wealthy, often hereditary land owners who dominate the lives of their subordinate classes and politics of vast areas.
Through the American Civil War, northern United States industrial interests represented by Abraham Lincoln successfully subjugated secessionist tendencies and the political base of the Dixie plantation aristocrats who once organized a confederacy in opposition to the North. A class of wealthy landowners continued to exist after the war, with their power curtailed and chief source of economic dominance---American plantation Black slavery abolished. Their resentment toward the American state is still expressed through strong emotional attachment to conservative political orientations and nostalgia toward the Confederate States of America.
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