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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know lots of extremely wealthy Southerners but none whose wealth dates back to the Civil War.   Everyone was dirt poor during the Depression.  Most wealth I know started accumulating just two generations ago (George Bush Sr's generation).  Timber and oil- and they had nothing to do with slaves or

Prestige and "class" in the South has more to do with your family's social status than wealth.  And I regularly hear southerners refer to "old money" that is just 2-3 generations old.

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Is that the new southern myth they're telling down there now?  That lie, along with "this confederate flag just represents my (treasonous) heritage" needs to die a quick painful death.  You can say whatever you want, but intelligent people who know history are well aware of where old southern money comes from. I'm simply not interested in hearing revisionist history about the origins of stolen southern wealth.  The south was, and tends to remain, on the wrong side of justice.  You are an apologist.[/quote]

+1, and I'm a southerner from the very deep south. We do ourselves no favors if we still can't admit how wrong our part of the country has been in so many ways. It's not just the south, or course, but for God's sake let's stop revising history yet again. My family has been in the south since the late 18th century. I have no evidence my ancestors were slaveowners or KKK members, but I have little evidence to suggest they were abolitionists and civil rights activists either. It's immoral to pretend like my upper middle class white southern self hasn't benefited from extreme white privilege going back generations. It's an uncomfortable legacy, but confronting it is the only way to move forward.
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