From: everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sat Mar 06 2004 - 03:26:08 PST
Well gentlemen, and ladies, please let this old southern boy make his .02
contribution to the comments about YANKS, YANKEES,. etc.
I have no animosity toward folks from the cold northern part of our great
country, except for the few who think that just because I talk slow my mind
is slow - for I know that just because they talk fast their mind is not
necessarily fast...
I was born in the south, raised in the south, U S Government put a uniform
on me and exiled me to north for a short time, but they released me and I
found my way home; and I when I die I well be southern dead.
I am in no way be offended by being called "Reb" - "Rebel" -"Graybelly" or
other terms used to describe followers -or want to be - followers of Gen.
Lee and President Davis.
I love my Confederate flag - and the Confederate flag is not the "battle
flag" most often negatively associated with the South.
Personally I refer to the conflict as "The War of Northern Aggression" and
the invaders from the north as "them Da** Bluebellies."
And as for "Carpetbaggers" -We still suffer from them.
Yankees in my mind are a baseball team.
I am always at a loss as proper term to use for persons from UK.... of
course I am often at a loss....
And by the way I have no idea what a "Pom" is, have I missed
something???????
Everette
"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things.
You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." General Robert E.
Lee, C.S.A.
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