Why did poor white Southerners support a slave society in which they had so little power?
A) They had little power but many privileges in a society that was egalitarian despite great divisions in wealth.
B) They felt themselves to have more influence on Southern society than they actually did.
C) They viewed enslaved African Americans as having better lives than they did themselves.
D) They believed in the inferiority of African Americans.
E) They benefited from slave labor even on their own small farms.
D
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