Check my address. You're buying into "The Lost Cause Myth" when you accept "Gone With the Wind" as an accurate picture of the antebellum South. Also, I'm in my 70's. The South as it exists now is not the South that existed when I visited my family, in NC and GA, in the 50's. AND back then, the South was run by DemonRats, a fact they try hard to push down "the memory hole". BTW, "house slaves" were always treated better than the field hands, which is why they were loyal to the Master and his family (sometimes they WERE his family).

Quote from: mdgiles on July 18, 2021, 09:18:45 AMCheck my address. You're buying into "The Lost Cause Myth" when you accept "Gone With the Wind" as an accurate picture of the antebellum South. Also, I'm in my 70's. The South as it exists now is not the South that existed when I visited my family, in NC and GA, in the 50's. AND back then, the South was run by DemonRats, a fact they try hard to push down "the memory hole". BTW, "house slaves" were always treated better than the field hands, which is why they were loyal to the Master and his family (sometimes they WERE his family).

 

I so agree with you. I am also in my 70's and have always lived in the South. What it is now is so different from the 50's.

MM wrote the book in the 20's I believe.  60 years after the civil war ended.
What could be argued is what was shown was a viewpoint of the south from that period; when the image was still vivid as regards what happened.

The fact is no one NOW really knows what the south was truly like in the 1860's.

The fact is that less than 1% of southerners owned slaves. There were a thousand or so plantations at most. So what was portrayed in the Movie was a small slice of a small slice of the South. 

Quote from: winterset on July 18, 2021, 02:33:49 PMMM wrote the book in the 20's I believe.  60 years after the civil war ended.
What could be argued is what was shown was a viewpoint of the south from that period; when the image was still vivid as regards what happened.

The fact is no one NOW really knows what the south was truly like in the 1860's.

The fact is that less than 1% of southerners owned slaves. There were a thousand or so plantations at most. So what was portrayed in the Movie was a small slice of a small slice of the South.

And thats why I felt it had some historical value, since many of the people during the war were still alive when it was made. I read the last civil war veteran died in 1959. Thats why I found it so fascinating.

Plus I didnt see any of the racism for which the left wants the movie banned.

Quote from: winterset on July 18, 2021, 02:33:49 PMMM wrote the book in the 20's I believe.  60 years after the civil war ended.
What could be argued is what was shown was a viewpoint of the south from that period; when the image was still vivid as regards what happened.

The fact is no one NOW really knows what the south was truly like in the 1860's.

The fact is that less than 1% of southerners owned slaves. There were a thousand or so plantations at most. So what was portrayed in the Movie was a small slice of a small slice of the South.

The percentage of Southern slave owners was nowhere near the majority of Southerners, but the Southern economy was built around slavery. From the procurement and recapture of slaves to the feeding and clothing of them. Besides the existence of slavery, meant that Southern whites - even the poorest - was never on the bottom of the social ladder. As for not knowing what the antebellum Soth was really like, one of the WPA projects in the 30's was to collect the actual testimony of Southerners - who were in their 80's, both black and white - thus born and raised before the Civil War.

Quote from: mdgiles on July 24, 2021, 07:38:58 AMThe percentage of Southern slave owners was nowhere near the majority of Southerners, but the Southern economy was built around slavery. From the procurement and recapture of slaves to the feeding and clothing of them. Besides the existence of slavery, meant that Southern whites - even the poorest - was never on the bottom of the social ladder. As for not knowing what the antebellum Soth was really like, one of the WPA projects in the 30's was to collect the actual testimony of Southerners - who were in their 80's, both black and white - thus born and raised before the Civil War.

Have you escaped NYC and moved to SC?

Do you have any evidence of this or are you must mouthing the usual liberal garbage?

Got news for you if you had not figured it out-  talking to people about events like 50 YEARS AGO will not be accurate.

Quote from: mdgiles on July 24, 2021, 07:38:58 AMThe percentage of Southern slave owners was nowhere near the majority of Southerners, but the Southern economy was built around slavery. From the procurement and recapture of slaves to the feeding and clothing of them. Besides the existence of slavery, meant that Southern whites - even the poorest - was never on the bottom of the social ladder. As for not knowing what the antebellum Soth was really like, one of the WPA projects in the 30's was to collect the actual testimony of Southerners - who were in their 80's, both black and white - thus born and raised before the Civil War.