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[Laurie Verge]

Donna,

If Mrs. Davis had really been Mrs. Lincoln, do you think that the Northerners would have accepted her better than they did Mary? Do you think that Mary's background as a perceived "Southerner" from Kentucky worked against her as First Lady?

I would assume that having relatives fighting for the Confederacy had to taint her, but do you think she would have gotten the same mistreatment if all of her family had been Unionists? Do you think that having to follow Buchanan's popular niece, Harriet Lane, as the "official social hostess of D.C." also worked against her?