Being from the Mason-Dixon line state, I don't feel there is a true North or
South anymore. I've been in all parts of the country. True we are all
Americans, but each area is a little bit different. And I enjoy the cultural
differences that still exists. I enjoy tasting the different foods, hearing
the different accents, and experiencing the different ways of life, when I
travel. Canvas a buyer from Walmart in Kentucky, one from Maine, and one
from California and you see that there are some staples that are the same in
each store, but I would like to hear what unique items they stock in each
that are just for those particular areas. I'm sure you still wouldn't get a
good cross section of America with those three either. Like our teenagers,
we want to be different, but the same - LOL.
Lonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Philip Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: End of the War of Northern Aggression
> Now someone finally understands. The 'neoconfederates' have whined and
> cried
> enough that we can now consider ourselves the winner. Great.
> When we get to overrun New York, Boston, Philadelphia and the other Yankee
> bastions of economic oversight over all of us, then we will truly have
> won.
> Personally, the freeing of the 'slaves' was a true necessity of the 'wah'.
> Now all of us need to acknowledge we are members of the same country. No
> one
> is black and no one is white. We are all Americans.
> The TOTALLY UNITED USA is the real savior of the 21st century. Both the
> NORTH AND the SOUTH should look at each other as one, not separate
> entities.
>
> I only wanted to acknowledge my cousins ending of the war and the
> reunification of the country he loved as much as all of should and do love
> it.
> I believe that we can continue this discourse with the same passion and
> zeal, the north will always be the real winner but we could have dreamed.
> I
> don't believe the south really wanted to have Texas as its major state.
> At the end of the day, we are still citizens of the greatest country in
> the
> world. Maybe the civil war was the true glue that binds us all together
> now.
>
>
>
> John Philip Adams
> Texas
> [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hardin, David
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: End of the War of Northern Aggression
>
> I find Neoconfederate revisionism quite
> fascinating. As a student of culture, it is always
> interesting to see a group's process
> of mythologizing their own history. The Cult of the
> Lost Cause constructed an alternate reality for
> Southerners through a relentless campaign of
> propaganda designed to control the debate over the
> war. By hollering the loudest and longest,
> Confederates and now their Neoconfederate offspring
> have in effect done something unusual: they are a
> rare example of the losers writing the history. But
> why all the fuss? After all, the South has become
> the dominant region of the United States. The South
> receives a disproportionate share of redistributed
> taxpayer dollars, the solid "red state" voting bloc
> of the South drives our politics, country music is a
> major national radio format, the Left Behind series
> is the largest selling fictional series ever
> written, and NASCAR is the largest spectator sport
> in the United States. It took a while, but the
> South finally won. Sure, you might have to write
> off Virginia north of the Rappahannock to new
> invading Yankee hordes, but all in all a pretty good
> consolation prize for a failed insurrection. One
> would think the Neoconfederates would quit while
> they're ahead.
>
> ________________________________
>
> Dr. David S. Hardin
> Assistant Professor of Geography
> Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
> Longwood University
> Farmville, Virginia 23909
> Phone: (434) 395-2581
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> ********************
> "For as Geography without History
> seemeth a carkasse without motion,
> so History without Geography
> wandreth as a Vagrant without a
> certaine habitation."
> John Smith, 1627
>
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