OooOOOooOO! OooOOOooOO!!!

[hermione_vader]

I'm watching Gone with the Wind on AMC.  I first saw it when I was about 15 or 16, and I immediately loved it, with all its sweeping, melodramatic grandeur.  I still love it, though I can definitely see why it's viewed as problematic.  I guess my inner teenager just can't let go of it.

Anyway, this viewing is dredging up all of my GWTW feelings (at

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[ericadawn16]

I always understood that Rhett was a Blockade Runner, the Civil War equivalent of a pirate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_runners_of_the_American_Civil_War

There's a southern plantation about an hour south of me that sheltered one of them during the war.

[hermione_vader]

Ah, thank you for clearing that up!

Ooh, interesting. I'm from Missouri, a border state, and so know nothing of such things. They told us more about bushwackers (Confederacy) and jayhawkers (Union) and their guerilla warfare in history class.