In the outer world, the most obvious kinsmen to the pied noir are the whites of South Africa, Rhodesia and the "Deep South" of the United States. In terms of the numbers of generations that had come to regard Algeria as "home", and had absolutely nowhere else in the world to go, he stood somewhere between the Afrikaaner and the Rhodesian. At the opposite ends of the social scale, comparisons in their way of life and attitudes could be made between the grands colons and the plantation owners of the "Old South", while the least privileged elements of Bab-el-Oued or Belcourt bore a marked affinity to the "poor whites" of Faulkner, coexisting uneasily alongside the blacks in the torrid, over-crowded American cities of the same epoch.

XREF: Sits against standard US apartheid or Brazilian miscegenation frameworks used elsewhere in comparisons. QUESTION: What exactly was Algeria's racial-social arrangement if it fit neither model?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 160