Down here we have a bumper sticker that says "FORGET, HELL!". Maybe you'd feel the same way if Lee had marched through the northeast and burned everything and left formerly prosperous families destitute and a profitable farm economy in shambles. Heck, we've spent the past 100 years or so stealing your manufacturing base to try to make up for it.

I don't spend much time worrying about it, but there certainly is an occasional conversation or contemplation of States Rights that will bring it out in most real Southerners (as opposed to transplants or the younger generation). In time it'll be forgotten.... maybe a couple of thousand years. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

I had a grandfather with a few "great"s in front who was a General in the Army of the Confederate States of America (yes, we all had one of those in our lineage)... while he was away at war, a Union General and a couple of lackeys came up on the porch of his house and told his wife they were going to take over her house and use it for a field headquarters.... she ran 'em away with the broom in her hand. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> On the not-so-funny side, there is a Union monument at the very tip end of Maryland's western shore at a place called Point Lookout. That obelisk monument marks the spot where a Union POW camp was built during the War of Northern Aggression. Conditions were horrible and prisoners were treated pretty badly. The names of those who died in that prison are inscribed all up and down on all sides of the monument. One of them shares my name.

Point Lookout Prison

You might want to take a few minutes and read this:

Causes of the Civil War (from the Southern View)

You see, like my great-grandfather and his brother who set out on foot from NC to find their fortune and didn't stop walking until they reached the fertile fields of South Georgia, the same spirit that built America after the Revolution also built the South... until the North decided to meddle a bit more than necessary... in their omnipotent, duplicitous and sanctimonious hypocrisy. And I see Mr. Kennedy is still carrying the banner.

Other than that, the North is perfectly ok by me. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You did ask. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Frank <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />