Having spend every summer of the 1990s in Virginia and North Carolina doing 
archival research, I was present to note the increased availability of 
staples for Mexican style cooking in the upper South.  Good flour tortillas 
were fairly scarce say in 1992 but all the major supermarkets seem to carry 
them by 1999.  This made it easy for me to make burritos for my cousins who 
hosted me in Raleigh each summer.

Harold S. Forsythe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lonny J. Watro" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: End of the War of Northern Aggression


> 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
>>