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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Civil War did a number on the social classes. You've got some families that made their money in the late 19th century, and others who always had a Name (capital letter deliberate.) As PP's have pointed out most of the wealthy planters went bust after the War.

Basically it's the same thing as Downton Abbey, you had the titled class that wasn't always the monied class, and there was always a little bit of tension between the two.

There was also the good ol' boy class (lawyers, doctors, ministers, etc.) who were suitable for socializing to some extent but not marriage, the redneck class (the blue-collar types who didn't drink it away), and the white trash class.

Blacks had their more or less parallel system what with the high yellow folks, Jack and Jill, and other organizations where you had to be both colored and wealthy to join.

Of course today this has all blurred a bit (both within and between the races*), and plenty of planters figured out how to keep the estate together and helped themselves into both the titled and monied classes. Of course, you get grandkids that blow through the family fortune, grandkids that figured out how to buy in what's become the inner and outer suburbs of Atlanta and other growing cities, etc.

(*) The caveat that things like Ferguson Blue Gang aka Police Department make it all too clear to Blacks the challenges they continue to face, although now you get enough incidents of injustice against individual Whites but nothing like the Ferguson Blue Gang. [/quote]

Please read this closely.  This is someone typing on a keyboard in 2031/2022 talking about blacks with their parallel system.  They have to be joking, right?  I have family in the south: they are not!  [/quote]

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