Southern Jews

Steve Sailer's article on the American South hyperlinks to an old article of his about the Jew's place in same:

Weren’t Jews in the South more victimized by all the bigoted Southern anti-Semites? No. Actually, the slaveholding states were far ahead of the northern states in electing Jews to high office, such as Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin. 

In general, Jews were more welcomed by Southern elites. Much as in medieval Poland, where the nobles invited in Jewish merchants to provide them the financial services that their own people were too innumerate to undertake, rich Southern Protestants generally saw themselves as an agrarian warrior class. So Jewish commercial facilitators, such as the slave-owning Lehman Brothers, who founded the future investment bank in Alabama in 1855, tended to be welcomed as complementary to the landowners.

We can attest to this in our own family. Our grandmother was born in Nachez (pronounced Naches) Mississippi and raised in Waterproof, Louisiana. Her father, William Eisman for whom we are named, settled there after leaving Germany in 1919. He married Rose Marx. Hannah Marx Eisman followed in 1926 (she would kill us for revealing her year of birth). William and Rose Eisman are buried in a cemetery overlooking the Mississippi called 'Jews Hill'. It was commonly understood that Jews or 'Hebrews' were 'people of the book' and to be respected as such. 

In 1944 Hannah Marx Eisman met a nice Yankee Sergeant who was stationed at Ft. Polk...

Our grandmother was very much a woman of the South in form and manner and possessed something of a smooth, molasses accent.

She was buried in 2003 with Louisiana soil.