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

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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...