https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/hundley/hundley.html#hund2...
The author was more erudite than the current 140-character expounders of his beliefs, but these beliefs haven't altered much over the generations: poor people come from poor stock, our poor are better off than europe's poor, cities are the root of unrest, if you let people go after slavers they will go after capitalists next (massachusetts being the home of socialists and communists), etc.
If Hundley was distasteful, Isenberg has more modern sensibilities: https://bookclubbabble.com/white-trash-vs-the-american-dream...
(To tie back to more usual HN'ish fare: the textile mills mentioned in the comment on that page were outcompeting the textile mills in Boston due to nonunion labour. Eventually the loss of the textile industry to the south would provide cheap office space for DEC.)