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Consider the demographic differences. In the northeast it appears private education, wealth, family pedigree, and family connections are major deal makers in life generally. An aristocracy. That is not a cultural norm outside the northeast even when family wealth is present. This cultural distinction creates identifiable exclusion.

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"Old money" is absolutely a thing in the south, as is "the good ol' boys" network. There are places in the south where not having the right surname constitutes an achievement ceiling all by itself.

Much of the "old money" in the south is northerners. People who came after Civil War to open factories and textile mills.

I've never met an example of this. More common in my experience is plantations that either turned into country clubs or subdivisions.

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