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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The original question of this thread (from 2015!!) seems to be whether southern wealth can ever compare to the type of wealth found in NYC prep schools, and the answer is yes. Wealth is not limited to NYC. Is this that hard to understand?[/quote]
I know and do business with plenty of wealthy people from the South. They're not a bunch of genteel planters sipping their mint julips on the porch. They made their money in areas like the real estate boom in the South (which only dates back to when Northerners started moving down there in droves), banking, oil & gas, industry and so on.  It's tough to see how a guy who made his millions building retirement communities in Florida can be accused of making his money on the legacy of slavery.

Modern Southern rich people are like rich people everywhere else in the US. Sure, places like Charleston and New Orleans may have some people with old family names and histories, but they're more a quaint curiosity, rather than important movers in the modern economy.

Some people on this thread are coming off as pretty parochial, and it's not the Southerners. [/quote]
What wealthy southerners would think about a NYC prep school grad thinking that wealth resides solely in NYC.... [/quote]

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