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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Braggy, braggy, braggy. And can you hear yourself? You seem pretty pleased at your family wealth, as though it means your family was necessarily good people. [/quote]

No...she really doesn't. God what is with these sad DCUM trolls?

I discovered this thread and have been enthralled by it. More stories please![/quote]

She does sound braggy, and PP is not a troll. One is not a troll merely for disagreeing mildly. It is a fascinating thread, I agree, but it plays further into the (inexplicable) Southern sense of supremacy. Many families, Northern and Southern alike, have immense wealth and no one talks about it. It's pretty much universal good breeding not to talk about money, and especially so since I think most wealthy people, especially when it's old family money - again, North or South - are cognizant that their money was made on the backs of slaves, figuratively or literally. [/quote]

You don't have to be old money either to have the evil heritage of plantation owners. My family owned slaves since the 1850's, unfortunately.[/quote]

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