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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 291708" data-attributes="member: 2208">From my understanding "blue blood" is generally applied to one born to wealth and privilege, not one who built it themselves.  Thus J.R. and Bobby would be blue bloods, but Jock isn't. He's "new money."Although sometimes I see blue blood used to denote long family histories of wealth and privilege, at least a few generations, so by that definition even J.R. and Bobby wouldn't qualify yet, as their family wealth is only one generation behind. Maybe John Ross and Christopher would fit the definition better?Miss Ellie's status I'm unsure of, as I'm not clear exactly how "rich" her father was meant to be, nor how long Southfork had been in her families hands.</blockquote>