Anecdotally we're nearing or reaching historical highs thanks to global warming, so in part people who lived in the South as I do didn't have to quite deal with

Anecdotally we're nearing or reaching historical highs thanks to global warming, so in part people who lived in the South as I do didn't have to quite deal with such high temperatures. Even so my house which was built in 1936 has very high ceilings, multiple windows with window screens in every room, a whole house fan that creates a nice breeze in the house by drawing in outside air which it vents into the attic, and two screened attic vents that are 4-5 feet wide and around 10 feet tall. The house was very much designed to cool by moving lots of air. Add in the shade from a pecan tree and it can be quite pleasant. I'm still running the AC as we speak because even with all that moving air it's still humid.