(ok first of all- i'm really digging the anon shades eggbug. bless you staff.)
i'm not sure i'm the person to ask this lol? but i would recommend looking into how the taste of british nobility (and imitation of it) was transplanted to the american south. what the values were (particularly calvinism and how it can be taken as meaning god made some people "not good enough" as well as the protestant work ethic), what their idea of glamour was (big, empty, maintained land!). lawns, those are british. customer service culture, that's arguably british, though you could just as easily argue that it's more american at this point, under the influence of slavery and racism.
one thing a lot of people say about racism is that it's a by-product of the material conditions and not the motivation for how things were and are. the ideology of racism provided a convenient excuse for the brutality needed to accelerate colonial prosperity.
tl;dr money fetish + ideology of sacred hierarchy = bad

