https://www.uncleguidosfacts.com/2015/07/the-southern-myth-of-cavalierregional.html
In a review of two books by the historian George Frederickson, James McPherson of the New York Review of Books (12.4.08) discusses the issue of regional identity of the South and the North – Cavalier vs. Yankee. The Southern gentry believed that they were descended from English aristocracy and earlier to the Normans, and continued that ‘cavalier’, chivalric and heroic tradition in the United States. They believed that Northerners, coming from peasant stock were inferior, as were their social and economic models.