Of course Southern women are American women ... the best of all. My post, which you have completely misinterpreted, was meant to indicate a superiority of character [well, maybe not in Scarlett, herself] in the Southern women about whom Mitchell wrote.
Just for the record ... I have never, never called Southerners bigots. There may be some bigots in the South ... but most of those are carpetbaggers if you look closely enough! Southerners in general are NOT bigots. Where on earth did that come from? Certainly not from anything I have ever posted. Read my posts. I have probably been more supportive of the South and its inhabitants ... including the much maligned ihhabitants of New Orleans ... than anyone else on FRee Republic.