Southern Democratic plantation masters' prestige and dominance were equivalent to monolith monarchs. They had influence around the world, especially within the political arena.

His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.

So there were in the countrey two knyȝtes that were bretheren / and they were called two peryllous knyghtes / the one knyghte hyght syre Edward of the reed castel / the other syr Hue of the reed castel / And these two bretheren had disheryted the lady of the roche of a Baronry of landes by their extorsion

All sorts came to see Linda, whose soulful innocence was as refreshing as a gin cocktail or a coffin-dodger the next morning, when one has a tongue like the corporation street brush and a mouth in semblance, to the bottom of a parrot cage.