Premise: Liberals have been like the pre-Civil War Whigs, at least as rendered by Louis Hartz in his classic Liberal Tradition in America . The Whigs kept seeing the proles through the lens of Europe's old feudal societies, imagining that America's lower orders wanted to seize property rather than acquire it.

Hypothesis: The Whigs framed things like in the feudal societies, being very paranoid about their property.
Relation: neutral