I think it’s a fair assessment to say the roots of a huge proportion of “southern” culture, art, and music are directly derived from the people who were an enforced second class (or property) in the region. Hell, white “southern” culture now in no small part still defines itself by its hatred of the groups whose contributions are the foundations of their cultural identity today. It’s not pulling the one drop rule when these fucks still use their “culture” to justify hate of the people who built the foundations they stand on