Why does Scarlett's father talk like a commoner who just came over on the boat? This has been bugging me for a while.
Dug into Wiki on this one. In the pre-war South the Irish were pretty low on the social hierarchy. In the description of the novel it is clear that Scarlett's mother was from upper class French lineage, so it follows that her grandfather wasn't pleased with the match. There is also a reference to O'Hara winning Tara in a poker game. The "better" local families would most certainly have looked down on them, but I can find no suggestion of that.
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