People of the South: Poor Rednecks or Wealthy Landowners?

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a fictional novel written by Ernest Gaines. This novel tells of the life of Miss Jane Pittman through her eyes. Jane was an ex-slave, and the novel mainly tells about her journey to get to Ohio. There are many stereotypes in this novel about many kinds of people. One example is that a lot of people from the South are rednecks and poor. This stereotype is proved false because there were many wealthy plantation owners in the South during the post Civil War era. although there were many wealthy landowners, there were also many poor and uneducated people too. This is the main reason for  the stereotype because that's the main thing that people look at when they think of the South.