Sarah Walker (sarjsege@mars.utm.edu) from tc0-37.apex.net at 09/26/98 03:24PM
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    Anne Scott said so many things during her presentation that made me stop and think. Up until the last few weeks, I had always pictured a "southern lady" to be a Scarlett O'Hara-type who sat on the porch of her mansion day in and day out doing nothing. I had never thought anything else. Boy, was I wrong!! When Mrs. Scott said that only three hundred families out of a population of seven million in the south had the resources to produce what people consider the so-called true southern "lady", I had to practically pick my mouth up off the floor. That is mind-boggling!! To me, however, most of the women we have read about could be known as southern ladies: hard-working women, regardless of race or social standing, who did everything they could to protect and care for their families in every way possible.