define old money

no but if i like a house that takes money into consideration then...

"Old money" doesn't always mean "fabulously wealthy" -- while yes, there are many people in the south who are as wealthy as people from the northeast (think Atlanta, Dallas) old money in the south has more to do with history, hence "old." If your great great whatever grandpa made it big when the railroad first came to Mobile and your family still lives in Mobile and has been cultivating the family fortune, that's old money. If you lived in the Great Northeast and were technically upper middle class fine but that's not all that matters.

Are you seriously trying to say girls in the Old Row houses came from families that had slaves?

Please stop. You are embarrassing yourself. If your dad is a surgeon and your mom built her own company you definitely had a leg up to get in an Old Row house. Sounds like either your GPA sucked, you were not even remotely popular in high school and you’re not cute/trendy/classy enough to have gotten a bid, so now you’re bitter.

No one’s families owned slaves. Just stop.

“No one’s families owned slaves.”

Oh lord. Are you denying slavery occurred? Is this ignorance or denial?

I will say that I love my experience at Bama and in my house but their is a large group of OR girls from Southern states that share this logic and really do think they are better than any non-Southern girl because of their class and it’s the weirdest thing ever.

Plot twist: I didn’t want OR.

Not cool

that's what i think of when i hear "old southern money"

But the person who referenced slavery and it's relation to old money is correct. If your family has roots in the South and is considered to be of "old money" then it's more than likely that your family owned slaves at one point. And/or your family is in the oil industry (more popular in Texas).

Stop being offended by the truth.

Yep, every Southerner who flexes on other people about their old money is basically flexing their family’s history as slave owners. That is a FACT.

You can’t undo what generations before you did but use some good taste and stop flexing that BS on others like it makes you better.

No one ever got rich off of oil or, idk, COAL, in the northeast????

You’re right. The only difference is that his family didn’t originate their wealth off the backs of slaves. The rest of the mindset fits.

You are just showing your ignorance.

The south has some of the last remaining old money towns - think Savanah, Charleston, parts on New Orleans.

You can get an equal dose of “not from here” attitude in these areas as you can in Nantucket.

Frankly, the NE old money cliques are more diluted and weak in comparison to some of these southern hold outs.

I’m not saying there are not very wealthy families in that area that have been wealthy for generations but when looking at the industries that usually equate to a family being old money (fur trade, railroad, mining, steel, banking, shipping) with the exception of oil, those are not historically large industries in the south. Ofc ur gonna fine some posers in cape cod but let me know when a Vanderbilt or Carnegie signs up for rush at bama.
Again I’m not trying to call the south a poor region by any means, I myself am from a small town in West Virginia, but it’s just a fact that the old money families of America are not southerners

Vanderbilt and Carnegie. LOL. What you do, read a book one time.

Seriously, you dont have a clue. .

LOL Murdaugh vibes. That’s a perfect description.

Equating the Murdaughs with “the best” absolutely sums this up!

The idea that these girls are “old” money is just laughable.

I’ll give them southern morales and manners at best.

But old money isn’t in mega-churches!