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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
Are you from the south?
I haven't met anyone yet that thinks all white people in the 1800's were drinking lemonade on the porch of their large plantation home.
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I was being facetious. But plenty of people kind of ... forget... about poor people or minorities or how hard it was to be a woman during those time periods in favor of the mental image that is in their heads.
It's a bit like people who idealize the pioneer days when MEN WERE MEN and we killed our own food and claimed our own land.*
(*And women died in childbirth and families died from all sorts of things and we killed other people to take their land and cut all the trees down which reduced the ability of the soil to stay put in droughts, etc.)