The closest thing to a homegrown religion in America is the belief that “you’re just as good as anyone else, and nobody’s any better than you.” And no it’s not redundant. The two clauses are distinct dogmas. It’s the standard by which “justice” itself is judged.
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Theres cultural interplay between yeomen and free blacks in the 19th C that planter elites were keen to stop both antebellum with laws against whites fraternizing with slaves and postbellum with Jim Crow. Huge elite fear of Farmer’s Alliance unifying poor whites and blacks
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Lot of Scots-Irish values of bootstrapping, personal independence, pride in skills that began as ethnic identity became a generic lower middle class and working class American ethos rolled later into American Dream beliefs
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