One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is challenging the assumption that people thrived. Most of the time they didn’t. Hot summers were essentially downtime w

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is challenging the assumption that people thrived. Most of the time they didn’t. Hot summers were essentially downtime where people didn’t get much done. You can still see this in occupations and projects that occur outside, and on hot days people just don’t work. To me this is one of the major reasons why The South is generally perceived as “behind the times”, or “slow”. However this seems to be changing in the past few decades as AC has become more affordable.