Lively's lifestyle and fashion website Preserve, which shut down in 2015, romanticized the pre-Civil War South to a scary degree. Below, an excerpt from the site:

"The term 'Southern Belle' came to fruition during the Antebellum period (prior to the Civil War), acknowledging women with an inherent social distinction who set the standards for style and appearance. These women epitomized Southern hospitality with a cultivation of beauty and grace, but even more with a captivating and magnetic sensibility. While at times depicted as coy, these belles of the ball, in actuality could command attention with the ease of a hummingbird relishing a pastoral bloom."



Omitted is what else these 'Southern Belles' could command: the hundreds of human beings they owned. You can't present a glorified image of the slave-owning South anymore, Blake. You JUST CAN'T.