[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

No matter how assertive Mrs. Tarleton was, she didn't say a word about women's suffrage at this banquet.In fact, not only her, but also the other guests today.

As one of the two most important wives in the United States, the Clark family is always full of friends, so that this pre-war house was one of the best big houses on Peachtree Street, but now it seems small due to the large population of Atlanta.Therefore, every time there is a banquet in Clark's house, people without an invitation letter cannot enter the door - if there is no invitation letter and one can enter Clark's house by virtue of one's birth, then the Clark's house must be crowded and there is no place to stay.

It has been several months since Margot proposed to give women the right to vote, but no one except their sisters dared to mention this in public.

Not to mention Ellen and Melanie, the old models of southern ladies, even a well-known independent wife like Mrs. Tarleton is no exception.Yes, Mrs. Tarleton had participated in the management of Tarleton Manor long before the war started. She raised a good horse. It is not an exaggeration to say that the actual manager of Tarleton Manor is Mrs. Tarleton Manor.

But even Mrs. Tarleton dared not discuss voting rights in public after she got some information secretly.

Because until now, politics has been the prerogative of men, both the right to vote and the right to be elected.In the South, women are not allowed to participate in politics, and people like Margot and Scarlett who care so much about voting rights are definitely different.

Magdu had explicitly proposed giving women the right to vote a few months ago, but no one had discussed it in public.

Not only the women kept silent, but even the men acted as if this matter was not important at all.

Don't talk about it with women, even men rarely talk about it with men.

Scarlett had already muttered behind her back several times, and even Margot, after the anticipation and enthusiasm had dissipated, began to think about the meaning behind it.

Yes, this is not the period of World War I in "Downton Abbey", this is the United States in 1866, half a century earlier than Downton Abbey! Women's suffrage may have been a buzzword in 1910, but it was taboo in 1866!

In this era, people's requirements for women are delicate, obedient, and obedient, but they have never been smart and good at thinking.

Even if there is a girl like Scarlett who doesn't bother to hide her shrewdness and aggression, mothers will worry, worrying that her daughter will not find a husband because she is too smart!

Even if the American Civil War is over, even if the old times are over, people's ideas will not change so easily.

In other words, women are now given the right to vote. According to the common thinking of people nowadays, although these ballots are for women, the people who really decide the names on the ballots are still the men behind the women. .

After understanding this point, Margot naturally understood how to promote it in the future.

In fact, things have developed to this day, whether it is the original southerners or northerners, they all know that giving women the right to vote has nothing to do with women at all.Giving women the right to vote is actually a struggle between southerners and the federal government for Georgia's state rights.

After the war, the South lost a large number of young men, and although the Northern Federal Government also lost a large number of men, it had an absolute advantage in votes because it had drawn blacks.This is the actual situation in the post-war southern states in the original book.

But now it is different.Not to mention that Margo's influence on those black people made Georgia's votes fall on George's head properly, even the rest of the southern states were also affected.

The difference from the original book is that because the black people in the south know the story of Reed Stick, now the black people in the south are not willing to vote for the white people in the north, and would rather vote for their old club.It is probably because the southern whites did not have enough propaganda, so the votes were scattered, which made the governors of the states fall into the hands of the Yankees. I believe that in the next election, everyone will not make such a mistake.

It is for this reason that this time, except for Georgia, the governors of the rest of the southern states were taken by the Yankees-with a very slight advantage.

There are already blacks in the south, and now women are going to be given the right to vote. Will there be any northerners in the next election?

It's all in the south, and anyone who can still climb up to the governor's seat is not an idiot. Naturally, the states are all blown up like a dynamite |

In this turbulent environment, Georgia was the first to pass the suffrage bill for women.

In the bill, Georgia was the first to recognize that women enjoy the same rights as men, such as the right to inherit, such as the right to vote, but of course, not the right to be elected.

As for other southern states, because of the delay in passing the bill, various parades | demonstrations | continued, and there is a tendency to spread to the north.After southern whites were thrown into prison in large numbers for protecting their female relatives, many blacks were also thrown into prison for demonstrations, and the prisons in various states were once again full of people.

The three O'Hara sisters were sitting in the garden of Suellen's new house enjoying afternoon tea when the news reached them.

This is one of the reasons why the US is more comfortable than the UK at the same time.There is a saying that goes like this: In England, when the servants and maids in the manor enjoy afternoon tea, even The Queen can't call them out to work.

But in the United States, black people don't have this confidence, that is to say, no matter what time it is, Suellen can enjoy delicious refreshments at any time as long as she wants to.

Of course, Suellen couldn't be so helpless.She didn't want to lose the slim figure of a 20-year-old woman, let alone become a fat pig.

And for Scarlett, Suellen was the first among their sisters to live in such a big house!

It was so unexpected!

Who would have thought of this when none of their sisters were married?

Scarlett has been depressed for several days.

Without him, she just didn't like Suellen.

Of course, she couldn't help but ask Margot: "Isn't your family planning to build a house? It's the same?"

Margot smiled and said, "Suellen decided on a Gothic house. As for me, I plan to use a Baroque house."

"Baroque?" It's no wonder that Scarlett doesn't understand. Like most women of the same age, because of her limited education and because she has never been to Europe, she can only distinguish between European style and American style. As for Gothic style and Baroque style She really doesn't know the difference between the buildings.