[Colonel Kangaroo]

The novel and movie has had a great part in furthering historical misconceptions. In real life Ashley Wilkes would have been more likely to stay at home to get even richer growing cotton and to economically exploit the families of the poor southerners who were doing the fighting for him.

[parsifal]

Scarlett reminds us of the women in our lives who have histrionic personality disorder.

parsy who has known a few and is now afraid of women

[AtlasThugged316]

200 million tickets sold with a population of 130 million?
Obviously..that just means everyone was racist 1.3 times more what we are today...

AmIrightguise?

[Westlander]

Great movie ? Yes. Far superior movie - Dr. Zhivago.

[chae]

I tend to think that it shows what women really want. Alot of women say they want the Ashley Wilkes type but really need a Rhett Butler type of guy. Translation: women don’t want girlie men, and Scarlet was great, I love her! She was pretty, very ambitious and so what if she had mood swings, I think she was great!

[snippy_about_it]

You’re showing your lack of knowledge about the South during the war.

[goat granny]

The only character in that movie that had any reality was Rhett Butler, the one Clark Gable played. The rest were just plastic. Maybe Scarletts father had some reality...

[YHAOS]

Actually I never did give a damn About Scarlett

[Caipirabob]

In real life Ashley Wilkes would have been more likely to stay at home to get even richer growing cotton and to economically exploit the families of the poor southerners who were doing the fighting for him.

Yep, if he was a YANKEE he would.

[catfish1957]

Hey captain, why don’t you go have a fun time with Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit. You don’t know anything about the south. My plantation owning ancestors proudly fought.

[kalee]

ping

[mjp]

the poor southerners who were doing the fighting for him.

the poor southerners were not fighting for rich slave owners. They were fighting for:

1) the right of secession
2) property rights
3) right of self defense and self preservation, and self determination
4) right to liberty
5) right to oppose, resist and escape from oppression and tyranny(of the North, Federal, and of the majority)
6) states rights
7) state independence
8) state sovereignty
9) right to withdraw or recall any or all delegated powers from the central government if those powers were used to oppress
10) the principle that the union and the constitution was a compact among the several sovereign states
11) the principle that the states are united in a confederacy
12) the principle that the people have the right to live under the consent of the governed
13) the right to resist the initiation of force
14) the idea of the federal government is an agent of a conditional union
15) free trade
16) limited government
17) preservation of the South’s institutions, culture, society, traditions, and way of life

[Rabble]

"In real life Ashley Wilkes would have been more likely to stay at home to get even richer growing cotton and to economically exploit the families of the poor southerners who were doing the fighting for him.

You conveniently failed to mention the well to do northerners that were able to "BUY" their way out of the draft and stay at home growing even richer economically, while exploiting the families of the poor doing the fighting for him !!!