You underestimate the intelligence of your audience. You initially meant that the rural Southerners got by well during the Depression because of their resourcefulness. Now you spin that in an attempt to make them believe you meant that the rural Southerners never knew about the depression because they were in a depression ever since 1865. You may be that dumb ....... we aren't.

And, just for the record, there was nothing "civil about the war of 1861 - 1865. Sherman's "March to the Sea" didn't come through Tennessee. Hard for you to comprehend something outside your backyard, ain't it?

SRH

May God bless America and those who defend her.