Question

What does this quote mean?

"I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was."

Answer 1

Aunt Alexandra retains a certain attitude of the importance of what one is as a determinant of who one becomes.

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