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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gucci is kind of tacky and Eurotrashy, no?

My DH is from a Virginia plantation family. We're one of the original families of this area. Their hobbies are Dog shows, horses, boats, that kind of thing.

[b]Oh...and their other hobby is casual racism.[/b][/quote]

think of it as an homage to their history[/quote]

Keep your racist BS to yourself. [/quote]

How exactly do you think dynastic wealth centered around plantations was created?[/quote]

You should read up on reconstruction. A significant percentage of modern “plantation” owners were northerners (“carpet baggers”) who went South and bought land at courthouse sales after the Civil War, when the owners couldn’t pay the taxes.  We lived in a southern town with gorgeous antebellum homes that survived the war, and almost none of them were owned by the original families, even immediately after the war. There was one house that famously was owned by the same family, but that was because a rich man from the North was there when the tax sale happened, and he took pity on the owner and paid the taxes for him. These new owners benefited from the aftermath of slavery, but there aren’t that many families who have owned their land since antebellum times. [/quote]

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