We've gone from a landed white male elite to where everybody has the right to vote, if you're properly registered.

Today the white elite is exhorted to 'educate the blacks they come into contact with'.

Because of his professional integrity, she said, he "could penetrate this white elite and help to bring greater diversity to the next generation."

The white democratic elite of this time began making moves to disenfranchise both poor whites and blacks.

Both saw the shift in the board's makeup as a transfer of power from minority residents toward a white elite.

"The vast economic and political power of the South's white elite hung in the balance," he writes.

This was the church of the white elite and freeman, former slaves.

Below the white elite, but merging with it, are mestizos.

But in that time the white elite barely conceded a seat on the city council.

In that same time period, it was also considered a way for the white elite to exhibit their loyalty to the Crown.