The town loafers, the cotton mill operatives, the small farmers, particularly the tenant farmers, are those who most frequently clash with both the impertinent and the self-respecting negro.

In their eyes self-respect may not be differentiated from insolence.

If a negro is not servile, they are likely to class him as impertinent or worse.
The political success of Blease of South Carolina, Vardaman of Mississippi, and the late Jeff.

Davis of Arkansas is largely due to their appeal to these types of whites.

The negro on the other hand may resent the assumption of superiority on the part of men perhaps less efficient than himself.