Unnamed Southern "Aristocrats"

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3196
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Unnamed Southern "Aristocrats"
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Unnamed Southern "Aristocrats"
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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The cotton economy created what Requiem for a Nun calls "its own parasitic aristocracy," which includes "merchants and bankers" and "lawyers" as well as the planters who live "behind the columned porticoes of the plantation houses" (179).