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
>