A major benefit to the racial separation is the probability of political stability which would allow for economic stability and growth however while still sacrificing liberal ideals to attenuate violent conflicts between whites. Faced with the emergence and reemergence of internal conflict, state elites in South Africa and the United States found the crutch of exclusion was too large if a benefit to ignore. In both South Africa and the United States, the racial exclusion of blacks or more specifically the bantu in South Africa served as a strategic purposes of coalition building by those in power. In America, despite the ending of slavery, northern and southern whites unified regardless of differing political ideologies to assert dominance in political and social spheres. This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their northern or southern affiliations. Akin to this ideal, the Boer's of South Africa unified with the British and in later years some coloured as well in order to assert and maintain dominance of the white elite over blacks even if it meant the inclusion of some non pure white members. .
Along with the social construction of race as an tool to gain and maintain power, race was also constructed as an economic apparatus to create a labour force that was virtually limitless and easily replenished as many black were eager to take a job wherever available as a means to support their families. As proven in the later years of the National party, the ideologies of apartheid were continually being abandoned in the name of siding with business practices for economic prosperity in spite of the conflicts it posed with apartheid's goal of completely separating races. The system, if it could be called a system, of apartheid it prided itself on the ideals on the total segregation of races, however, apartheid was fundamentally dependent upon the hegemony of blacks and their necessary role within the system.