Richard,

         You may be right on the term "damnyankee".  I never heard it til I
moved south and earned the title for having Pennsylvania plates on my car.
You are right on the money about Reconstruction being neglected. I think
back over history classes and recall little about reconstruction compared
to the concurrent westward expansion and growth of inventors/inventions in
the time between the civil war and WWI ...

                                                 Anne

At 11:36 AM 2/9/02 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/8/2002 10:24:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> >  If the Civil War was really about slavery and civil rights
> >  (which has always been my opinion), then why did the North make the
> >  reconstruction about economic retribution
>I've lived in Virginia almost seventy years with southern forebears. Although
>the South has many enthusiasts for the "soldiers of the lost cause," it is my
>opinion the "damnyankee" came not from the war, but from the period of
>Reconstruction, a somewhat unknown era of American history.
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