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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Old Southern money = slave holder wealth.  In other words, your rich southern ancestors stole the labor of enslaved blacks.  It's a pretty simple explanation, but it's not pretty.[/quote]

Well, you haven't read the last several posts.  Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, eh?[/quote]

And you shouldn't let history get in the way of your romanticized view of the south.  Let me guess:  You go around saying that the Civil War (oops, the War of Northern Aggression) was really about "states rights," right?  You just leave out the part about the War being about states' rights...to own other human beings.  You sound like a KKKassy guy/gal.[/quote]

Well bless your heart.  [b]Others have explained that wealth connected to slavery was destroyed by the war. [/b] It wasn't "handed down" to anyone.  If it makes you feel better to cling to your dogma, go ahead and do so.[/quote]

No, one PP gave one unsourced, half-assed answer that she probably got from her granddaddy. Generational southern wealth did not just poof out of existence after the war. And as another PP did explain, Jim Crow basically continued slavery. Or are you suggesting sharecroppers, for one example, got the long end of that deal? Listen, it was hard for me, as a white person, to recognize that the economic growth of America was hugely powered by the forced labor of Africans and their descendants, but this bizarre insistence on the myths of the dear Old South is just embarrassing.[/quote]

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