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Old 05-16-2009, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat View Post
I love Gone With the Wind as much as anyone, but let's be real -- it is a highly romanticized, lop-sided view of the ante-bellum and post-bellum South. Dressing up like Miss Scarlet or Ashley Wilkes is to Civil War Reenactment as, well, fiction is to history.
lol no I'm definitely well aware that it was very romanticized and lop-sided (I'm an English major who is doing all of her liberal arts area gen eds in the history department lol) But I'm just saying that it doesn't sound like these guys meant any harm to anyone but just my opinion.
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