re: Does anyone really have "Southern Pride"?

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If your family came over at the turn of the century (I'm assuming 1900 because you mention being in LA in the 1990's) why were they worried about Nazi concentration camps?

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That was perhaps a bit of artistic embellishment on my part. They were Jewish, and they were growing concerned about strident anti-Semitism in pre-WW1 Germany. As it turned out, they were quite prescient in their fear. Obviously, their fellow countrymen wouldn't be rounded up for the ovens for another couple of decades, but apparently my great, great grandfather believed a general national consensus against the Jews would culminate in persecution. So, he got his young family together and made his way to New Orleans.