American Nations: A History of thre Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

"The Puritans regarded Indians as 'savages' to whom normal moral obligations--respect for treaties, fair dealing, forgoing the slaughter of innocents--did not apply...in 1636 a group of Puritans engineered a genocidal war against the Pequot Indians [to justify seizing their land]...they surrounded a Pequot village and butchered virtually every man, woman, and child they found there, mostly by burning them alive." http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations.html

Ah...the Southern Strategy has deep roots: " I predict the worst consequences from a half-starved, limping [Federal] government, always moving upon crutches at every step." G. Washington 1786  p. 142