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Continue to ChatVirginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. - Carl L. Becker from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/virginia-was-in-fact-a-landowning-aristocracy-without-nobility-or-merchant-class-or-any-considerable-small