According to Descartes theory of dualism, the human mind or soul is separate from the physical body, and they both merely interact together. This is also known as the "mind-body dualism". While the physical body is made up of separate parts that can be removed (if one loses a limb), the soul is non-physical, and cannot be separated into different parts.Descartes further claims that since the soul is separate from the body, it still exists after the body perishes.
It exemplified the New South Era because South wanted to change from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy but there were many white racist antisemitic people conspiring against that. The Ku Kluk Clan for example actively participated in the lynching of Leo Frank a Jewish American factory superintendent who was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan. The trial was biased and the press inundated the case with misleading information. Leo was hanged by a mob that later formed the Ku Klux Clan.
