[Southlander]

Originally Posted by pennquaker09

60% Dixie. Barely in Dixie and 44% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. Right now, I live in suburban Philly but we're moving to Joisey. I teach high school students and I've been asked if I'm really from Alabama.

I got asked that when I lived in Atlanta in the 1970s! They straightened up when I told 'em I made more money.

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by Southernatheart

11% -- I am one of those damn Yankees from Massachusetts! I was afraid to take the advanced test. Will y'all still let me come? I am so looking forward to living in Alabama. I promise I will adapt quickly.

Hon, if you're already using "ya'll" in Massachusetts, I think we HAVE to take you in!

[puffle]

100% Yankee thank you very much

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by Hollytree

I did also live in Texas for a time and was always surprised that Texans and southerners in general keep the war so alive!!! What is it that you can't let go???? Do you really think the US would have been better off split in two??? You rarely, if ever, hear people talk about the Civil War up north!!! Sorry about Genl. Sherman, everyone agrees he went too far but really, WHY can't you get over it????

As SNL said, there are other threads to discuss the War Between the States (and all its particulars), so let me just abbreviate my reply and say that there is a HUGE difference in being proud of ones Southern history and heritage and "still fighting the war" in a belligerent manner and way.

Not that we have to explain nor apologize for that position...but just saying! And I think a lot of time northerners don't get the difference!

[pennquaker09]

I've lived in Pennsylvania for two years and I still get looked at liked I'm retarded when I say water.

[Valnf]

Wake up and get over it. The yankees won fess up!!

[MullinsCurve]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

so let me just abbreviate my reply and say that there is a HUGE difference in being proud of ones Southern history and heritage and "still fighting the war" in a belligerent manner and way.

I respond only when fired upon.

The interest in the South for the Great Unplesantries of 1861-1865 has much to do with the disdain by Southerners of others coming here and telling us how to live our lives. This seems to be a common thread by others in certain parts of the country, especially many from the Northeast and West Coast.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by MullinsCurve

I respond only when fired upon.

The interest in the South for the Great Unplesantries of 1861-1865 has much to do with the disdain by Southerners of others coming here and telling us how to live our lives. This seems to be a common thread by others in certain parts of the country, especially many from the Northeast and West Coast.

I agree absolutely. We have discussed this very thing in the Texas forum before.

Another thing as well. For historically minded Southerners (of which I classify myself) another reason why we might be falsely accused of "still fighting the War" is because, as the old cliche' goes, "the winners write the history" is that most northerners (and unfortunately, many Southerners as well) simply take it for granted that the North was right and the South was wrong. This without ever having read the Southern side of the conflict! And consequently, when this mindset is resented and countered, it is sometimes taken as "still fighting the War" LOL

No, it isn't. It is simply engaging in historical discussion and exchange.

But anyway, again, I don't want to get off topic here, just noting for the record!

[FlourChild]

Originally Posted by Valnf

Wake up and get over it. The yankees won fess up!!

I just think it's funny that your message title reads "We are in the year 2000". Um...not for eight years now, sweetie. Looks like we're not the ones living in the past, here.

And as someone who's spent 39 of her 40 years living in the south, I can say honestly that the only people I ever see or hear rehashing the War are NORTHERNERS. I come from Scottish/Cherokee hillbilly stock, at that; you'd think we'd be the ones throwing the wobbly, but every time I turn around, Northerners are obsessing over how superior they think they are. It's sort of pitiful. YES, WE GET IT--you like yourselves, apparently a great deal. Get a room, preferably one equipped with a stepladder, and climb up on that stepladder, and get over yourselves.

[blueskies49]

Originally Posted by Hollytree

I did also live in Texas for a time and was always surprised that Texans and southerners in general keep the war so alive!!! What is it that you can't let go???? Do you really think the US would have been better off split in two??? You rarely, if ever, hear people talk about the Civil War up north!!! Sorry about Genl. Sherman, everyone agrees he went too far but really, WHY can't you get over it????

89% Dixie for me.

I don't know that I've heard anyone really discussing the war. We might talk amongst ourselves that so and so from out of state is a yankee mainly if they're rude, arrogant or obnoxious or like someone else said, they come down here and think they know better than we do. I had a boss that called a Californian a yankee because he came to Texas acting like he knew more about our business than we did. We actually have a subcontractor that someone nicknamed "Yankee" and whenever he calls our office he identifies himself that way! "Hello, this is Yankee."