the people that did stay in a is -- is aarea, this did not get land, they went summer else. people. a group of counties,me of the you would find there are different parts of the county and they are moving around a lot. but very mobile. if one were to describe them more than anything else, they were extremely mobile. i think day, you know, a lot of wealthier white people would look down on them. they would deal with them when they had to. it when they needed some labor. they saw them as a bit of a troubling presence because they were not -- what people were not supposed to be these dependent and impoverished people. slavery was supposed to lift up all whites. it was seen as a troubling kind of presence. interestingly, black people talk about poor white and there is good evidence there about this cooperation across racial lines. looked cases, blacks down on poor whites as well and felt that they were better off. they sometimes made that comment. that was something that could undermine the whole notion of lavery. if they started to think that they were better than these impoverished wh