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Why did non slaveholding whites feel their future were tied to the survival of slavery?
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Why did non slaveholding whites feel their future were tied to the survival of slavery?

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They felt as if they were living the "American Dream." They took satisfaction in their supposed racial superiority, which would be gone if the slaves were released; many of the poorer whites were not economically much better off.
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