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- W1553960947 abstract "In his study of the settlement of southside Virginia, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry, Richard Beeman noted that Lunenburg County elected William Byrd III to the House of Burgesses during the early 1750s. On the face of things, this was an strange choice by voters on the southern colonial frontier. Byrd was hardly of Lunenburg's citizenry. He was the scion of one of Virginia's wealthiest planter families. They were a group of pioneers from a backwoods county. Byrd was not even a resident of Lunenburg. His only ties to the area were the few thousand acres of uncleared forest his family had acquired there. Byrd doubtless had little understanding of Lunenburgers or their problems. Yet this seemingly odd relationship – voters selecting a representative from outside their class and community – no longer surprises historians. Scholars now see it as typical of early America’s deferential society. In colonial America, they argue, the wealthy elite demanded political office. Raised in Europe's hierarchical societies, ordinary Americans quietly ceded power to this native aristocracy. Believing they needed upper class representation, Lunenburg County’s voters surrendered their political voice to the most eminent man available, despite his tenuous interest in their community. The study of deference has transformed the way we think about the origins of American politics. Charles Sydnor's seminal 1952 volume, Gentleman Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia, stripped away the veneer of enlightened liberalism historians had applied to the Old Dominion's revolutionary gentry. Sydnor described the contempt most planter-politicians had for ordinary voters, and detailed their attempts to escape the compromises to gentility demanded by electioneering. But he noted that despite the elite’s hostility to popular democracy, voters continued to elect members of the upper classes. Throughout the colonies, historians have found too much voter apathy, too many uncontested elections and secure, self-confident aristocrats to describe it all as a bumptious popular democracy. The politics of the nineteenth-century United States required a major" @default.
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