What the wind blew away

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Really, do we have to go over this whole business with Gone with the Wind once again?

Since 1961, the United States has gone through the civil rights era and all that came afterward. Does anyone really think we’re going to rewatch or reread this classic tale of endurance and resilience, of a woman wasting years of her life pining over a man who was wrong for her when the right one was always right there beside her, and decide that the Old South, of which we see just a little before it gets blown up completely, really had something great going on in the plantation system?

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