Dude....I grew up in South Louisiana (childhood in the late 1940’s, early 1950’s) BEFORE air conditioning, went to a high school that was NEVER air conditioned (graduation 1965).
I think our family was the first in the neighborhood to have a window AC unit, which was, of course, installed in the parents bedroom, but did a fair job of cooling the house, and, more importantly, dropping the humidity inside.
And I'm sure it was very "comfortable" in that Louisiana mugginess in the dead of summer without the air conditioning. But you use air conditioning now don't you? It's a modern convenience that makes life easier to bear in the heat and humidity.
I also grew up in the 60's in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The heat was brutal there but without the humidity. I live in Florida now and miss that "dry heat" every summer here.