It became a hierarchical society rooted very deeply in open conceptions of class and obviously open conceptions of race.

南方的阶级社会,深深地植根于,广大的阶级观念上和,普遍的种族观念上

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It was a belief in a hierarchical conception of not only society, but of people.

这就是一种不仅对于社会,也关于人类自身的等级观念

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It was a threat to hierarchy and the South became quite distinctively a very hierarchical society more on that in just a second.

民主对阶级制度是一大威胁,相对于北方,南方的阶级制度,更根深蒂固

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