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To: epicure who wrote (36313)	4/30/1999 6:15:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Everyone was poor then. Not literally everyone, but almost everyone. I grew up in the deep South, it was just a poor place. A lot has changed, wealth is much greater. Don't compare our life today with that of your mother, there's no comparison. People just take it for granted. Sharecroppers lived miserable lives, I don't disagree. They didn't own their own land, so it was tough to get ahead. Anyone who got ahead bought their own land. Then they weren't sharecroppers anymore. I lived in a government housing project when I was a little kid, it was pretty much like an apartment complex. I think we must have lived in what you call squalid poverty, because we qualified to live there. The state government had torn down all the shanties and put up the projects in the 1930's. I went back to see it when I was in law school, it was someplace that the police don't like to go after dark. When I was a kid, walking around after dark was ok for a little kid to do. But none of the people have jobs, or any thing to do, and they victimize each other due to an entitlement mentality that people didn't use to have.