Southernomics -- Greed and class domination, the southern 1%

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/us/conderate-flag-southern-economics/index.html

The Old South didn't just give the nation the Confederate flag, "Gone with the Wind" and mint juleps. Its leaders refined the practice of exploiting workers, busting unions and being stingy with investments in public services. Each tactic was designed to create a desperate and powerless workforce that could be exploited by Northern and overseas businesses, Lind and other historians say.

....White supremacy was never the driving force behind Southernomics -- then or now. Greed and class domination were

The foundation of that corrupt economic system was racial hatred fueled to leave the poor without a political solution or counterweight to exploitation.