In a message dated 09/20/1999 12:25:31 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > The avrage Southerner owned 1000 arces of land he farmed himself. One has to begin the study of American history with early Colonial times to understand the many and varied reasons for the tragedy that was the War of Rebellion/Civil War/Late Unpleasantness/Whatever, but I do hope the statement that the average Southerner owned 1000 acres was a typographical error and not presented as a statement of fact. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Joyce