I might be asking a dumb question, but regarding old money southern elites

I do

I would guess 0.

What a new money question

There are still old plantation homes around, many of which are still surrounded by a good amount of property. Not all of them, but many of them are considered national historical landmarks.

My family's (Destrehan Plantation) is now a tourist attraction in New Orleans.

Go watch the movie "Fletch Lives"

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Do many of the old money families who had ancestors in the southern planter aristocracy still live in the plantation mansions that their families built a long time ago?

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typically, not...while a good number of the plantation homes still survive in south and central la, almost none are still owned by the origrinal families that built them...when the farm economy collapsed, most were sold and are now inhabited by folks that made their money in oil and gas, etc....the farmland is rented out to local farmers to work...

No. fricking Yankee.

There are a lot of old money homes in Uptown New Orleans, etc. that are still occupied by the families that built them. They're not necessarily plantations but they are just as grand, if not more so. They aren't on large pieces of property now, but at one point they were.

A friend of mine when I was in high school lived in a beautiful antebellum mansion on State St., right off St. Charles Ave. There was even a cell under the house that had been used to punish slaves.

The Mississippi people would be the ones to ask. The legit plantation homes were built there. There was some in AL and LA, but the awesome ones were along the Mississippi River.