Here’s a quote from Allen Tate, one of the Vanderbilt Fugitives and a leading Southern Agrarian, on the South’s traditional racial caste system:

“I am not moved by the Negro’s demand for social justice and equality (worthy as those causes may be); I am interested in order and civilization, which in a crisis take precedence over all other aims.”

– Allen Tate, 1967

Note: In Allen Tate’s poetry, order and civilization take precedence over the claims of equality and social justice.