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To: combjelly who wrote (340087)	6/11/2007 5:24:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

The Old South wasn't a piece of cake for anyone but the wealthy. There wasn't much of a middle class and most whites were poor. Really, really poor. And uneducated, with little chance of getting any education. They don't teach those details in school. That was one the the Radical Republicans did well on, mandating public schools. They messed up a lot of things, though. Trying to force a single party system was one of the worst. Because the South went single party and got used to it. Do they teach the above details in southern schools? To hear southerners talk about the Old South, you have to wonder. To me, the Old South is like pre revolutionary France. When viewed from the monarch's perspective, the life was incredibly romantic and entertaining. Unfortunately, that was very small slice of French life at that time, and the much larger slice, the life of the peasant, was studiously overlooked. I think it was the same for the Old South.