Who makes up southern society prior to the civil war?

Southern Farmers

Explanation:

Most of the Southerners belonged to the Middle Class strata and were known as yeoman farmers, who had few acres of land and led a modest life in homes, raising chickens, and growing cotton and corn. Only few of these yeoman farmers had slaves that too only one or two.

the civil war is caused by a conflict of slavery between south and North

du boi was considered a radical because he wanted the immediate end for segregation. the biggest different between him and booker t. washington is that, even though washington believed that segregation should be considered illegal, he did not believe at all that a law was needed to keep blacks away from whites and that this would be something natural (to have the races apart) for a long time until society adjusted, while du boi believe that agitation was the only way to end segregation.