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What state in America do you most associate with “old money”?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:06 pm
For me, it’s either New Hampshire or CT.
Another way to ask this question, I guess: what state has the fewest white trash families per capita?
Another way to ask this question, I guess: what state has the fewest white trash families per capita?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:12 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Rhode Island and it's not even close
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:13 pm to Obtuse1
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Connecticut
This is what immediately popped in my head as well.
Also Virginia is up there.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:15 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 9:23 pm
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:16 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
North Carolina.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:17 pm to DVinBR
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Florida
Old money, not old people with money
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:19 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Connecticut for sure.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
All of those old money assholes from the NE states all end up in FL, telling us how great it is up north.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:24 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
All old money was once trashy new money. Old money just means you'r putting on airs while living off the effort of your ancestor who didn't know what fork to use but busted his arse so your daughter could be a debutante.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:26 pm to Jim Rockford
I disagree. The puritans of early New England might have arrived less than rich, but they were never “trashy”. They brought strong family culture and work ethic, which is why the regions inhabited by puritans grew so wealthy so fast.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Another way to ask this question, I guess: what state has the fewest white trash families per capita?
This is a completely different question. Old money tends to live and have lived in enclaves.
For example Chevy Chase in Maryland, Haverford in Pennsylvania, and Short Hills in New Jersey. The states as a whole have plenty of white trash but those little areas have been traditionally filled with people who have multi-generational wealth which in and of itself does not exempt them from being trash either.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:30 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
All that land the Brits got in Virginia, Marylandcsnd the Carolinas made those areas home to some of the oldest money in our country
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Connecticut certainly has some old money, but they also have a lot of new money. Lots of hotshot bankers and lawyers that had janitors for dads and will probably have janitors for sons or grandsons.
Also if you've ever left the southwest corner (IE suburban/exurban new york city such as Darien, Stamford, etc..) you know there is a lot of blight, slums, and lower-middle to poor in Connecticut. New Haven is a dive, Hartford sucks, Waterbury-Ansonia are dead factory cities, and Torrington is, too. Groton-New London is not exactly a garden spot. Its' a shipbuilding city so think Pascagoula.
Also if you've ever left the southwest corner (IE suburban/exurban new york city such as Darien, Stamford, etc..) you know there is a lot of blight, slums, and lower-middle to poor in Connecticut. New Haven is a dive, Hartford sucks, Waterbury-Ansonia are dead factory cities, and Torrington is, too. Groton-New London is not exactly a garden spot. Its' a shipbuilding city so think Pascagoula.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 10:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Not a state, but Mobile
Posted on 4/15/24 at 10:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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I guess: what state has the fewest white trash families per capita?
Why do you hate White people?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 10:36 pm to Hangit
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All of those old money assholes from the NE states all end up in FL
Unless they have lost all of their great-great-grandfather's money they are decidedly not ending up in FL.
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