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Which best describes wealthy Southerners who owned plantations?

They were members of the yeoman class.
They were about one percent of the population.
They formed a majority of the white population.
They were members of the lowest class on the social ladder.
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Majority of white ppl... there the ones who owned slaves
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They were about one percent of the population seems the most correct because only 1% of southerners families owned many slaves
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