Gotta own those libtards in the North

@PugJesus same could be said to all neoliberal voters who don't realize that it takes 5 generations to get out of poverty in Germany and your best chance of getting rich is inheritance or marriage.

Explanation: During the US Civil War, fought over the issue of race-based chattel slavery, many Southern rebels (colloquially, 'Johnny Reb') volunteered to fight for the slaver South despite many of them being quite poor themselves.

Because they weren't rich... but someday they might be!

Ironically enough, even most of the plantation "owners" didn't really own their plantations or slaves. They were typically massively in debt, usually to English bankers who were financing the loathsome operation to provide cheap raw material for their cotton factories. This is why the British government -- which had led the way in banning slavery in the British empire and using its navy to interdict the transatlantic slave trade -- was somehow on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

I've never read the book or seen the show. But I genuinely chuckled at this mashup.

FYI, the US still has slavery.