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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I come from old southern money.  Cotton on my daddy's side.  Lumber on my mother's.  My parents have a beautiful home, but certainly nothing enormous.  My mother drives a nice but not flashy car.  My daddy has a truck.  They travel quite a bit and give a ton of  money to their church.    Families in the south with old money don't talk about it.  Ever.  Everyone knows we have money because of our name.  It would never, ever be the topic of conversation.  If you met my parents in D.C. you would have no idea they had money.  That's just the way they are.

The majority of students at Ole Miss- you know, the college dcum loves to put down - have more money than you could possibly imagine.  Especially the ones from the Delta.  Rich kids in Mississippi have no interest in going to an Ivy no matter how great their SATs and grades.  They go to Ole Miss.

No one who knows me in Fairfax has any idea how wealthy my family is.  I was raised never to discuss money...except on an anonymous internet board ;)[/quote]

Wow, very interesting. Do you think you could give us a ballpark figure of what kind of net worth your family has? Or what kind of net worth the "more money than you could imagine" Ole Miss folks have? Because I find it hard to imagine anyone in Mississippi having more than, say, $10 M...just because there doesn't seem to be a very healthy economy in that state and everything is so cheap. But I'm open to hearing otherwise![/quote]

Honestly, I have no idea.  We have a ton of land that has been in our family for generations.  A lot of it is still used for crop - mostly cotton.  I have no idea how much is in the accounts.   Someone else manages all that stuff.  My daddy retired at 50, but I know he never needed to work.  My mother has always been very active in church and community stuff, but never worked for money.  I think if you are not from that type family maybe it's hard to understand.  We did not live an extravagant lifestyle.    No one is really spending a lot of money.  It just sits there.  My parents have been generous with gifts.  But otherwise, I don't think anyone really touches the money.  I guess that seems really odd to most people.  But money is just not discussed in our family.[/quote]

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