Tiffany Cross ROCKED at 9:52 am today, NAILED Mitch McConnell in most coherent brutal way

[yellowdogintexas]

35. he definitely would have been able to do that, especially if he did not

live on campus.

Back in the 1960s when Mitch (and I) were in college, it was a whole lot less expensive to go to college. Even at Louisville, which at that time was not part of the KY university sytem, in-state tuition was $40 per hour - $720 for an 18 hour semester. (my private liberal arts college was $12 per hour so we though U of L was atrocious and when our rates were increased to $14...oh the horror.)
State schools such as UK were far less expensive. These days of course this is not the case!!!

Snarky aside: McTurtle is a rare breed: graduated from both U of L and UK. There is a saying in KY "Wildcat by birth, Cardinal by the Grace of God" .

That ancestral wealth on the other hand, would have allowed his family to live in a good section of town (perhaps in an old family residence), go to bed knowing there would be food and heat in the morning, drive good cars, dine out when and where they pleased, employ household help etc. (There is a LOT of old money in the Louisville and Lexington areas.) Of course, I do not know that they did these things but if they had ancestral wealth they could have done so.

I think I read somewhere that the family roots are in Alabama, which is probably where the wealth is rooted. While KY had its share of slaveholders, the proportion was not nearly what it would have been in Alabama. Half of the state
is mountainous, not good for much other than mining and moonshine and those folks were Dirt Poor White folks then and this is still the case. Only a few portions of the state went with the Confederacy; mostly agricultural areas along the Tennessee border in the Western part of the state.

I will never understand why those poor struggling people continue to vote Republican.