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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This statement shows that you know noting about southern history.  There was no dynastic wealth after the war; the region was devastated and did not reach any level of economic growth until well into the 20th century.   [/quote]

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25700?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg2

Actually they did quite well after the Civil War. Less than two decades after the Civil War, Southern slave-owning dynasties were back on top of the economic ladder, according to an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark.

Even after the enslaved people on whom their wealth was built were freed, [u]Southern elites passed their advantages to their children through personal networks and social capital[/u].

Unlike in much of the rest of the South, wealthy white families in Sherman’s path often had their land appropriated, seized or destroyed by Union forces. By 1870, affected families had a staggering 40 percent less wealth than similar folks in nearby counties.

“Yet, even in this extreme case, we find that elite sons completely caught up with or even surpassed the sons of comparably wealthy families in neighboring counties,” Boustan, Eriksson and Ager write.

[u]These white families seem to have drawn upon exceptional social connections[/u], the economists find.

[u]Most notably, they married up. Boustan and her colleagues analyzed sociological indicators such as birth year and name choice to demonstrate that sons of slave owners tended to marry women from families with even more prewar wealth — probably at least in part because of their father-in-law’s network and influence[/u].

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