The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers

showed itself in politics, with the poor becoming Whigs and planters becoming Democrats.

was strained by planters' insistence that farmers participate in the slave patrols.

was complicated by the strong antislavery movement among poor farmers in the $1850$ s$.$

led to numerous violent uprisings in the southern hill country.

benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.