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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]

I believe her. I've been through the Delta and the wealth there would shock you to your core.  There is no in between. You're either filthy rich or extremely poor.  Mississippi is always portrayed as the poverty state. Not so. There are pockets of wealth like you have never seen.

People in the South never discuss money. Not even with family. It's considered bad manners. Most of the wealthy there never flaunt that wealth either. Farmer Brown may be wearing overalls and driving an old pickup but that pocket is full and the only bank in town stays running because of his money.

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