North Carolina is my home and I LOVE the south. I have lived in the MIDWEST and I was glad to get back to my roots. It appears to me that the northerners love the South as well especially when it is time to retire, and we love having them, just don't try to change us. Remember this is our home, the way we talk the way we live, and our Southern Hospitality we love to share, so remember if you can't respect us as we are, please stay where you are, because that is where we will fight back for our respect. We do not go up North or mid west etc and try to change you, we don't want to, or I sure don't. I am married to a Mid Westerner and believe me he Loves it here, I am a very lucky lady. WEll will close for now--Barb > >In a message dated 07/28/2003 6:23:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >hyacinth@ala.net writes: > > >> That's a mighty big "if". The country I love is the South, in particular my >> native state of Alabama. I have no affection for the Federal union, any >> more than did my great-grandfather (who fought against it), or my >> grandfather, or my father. >> >Hi Georgia, > >I couldn't have said it better...I love the South also, especially my >Southern Heritage. There are those who resent that, and would try to strip us of that >if they could! I have several g-g-grandfathers, who fought for their home, >the South, and one g-grandfather who served as a doctor in the Confederacy. I >think most of us who love the South, and study the Civil War, have one thing in >common, we don't understand why General Lee surrendered...I know I don't. We >can't go back and change history, but I would like to think if I had been a >Confederate Solider, I would have been honored to fight, to defend the >Confederate States of America, at any cost. >Surrender....never! > >Carolyn >"American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God" > >"In the South, the breeze blows softer...neighbors are friendlier, nosier, >and more talkative. (By contrast with the Yankee, the Southerner never uses one >word when ten or twenty will do)...This is a different place. Our way of >thinking is different, as are our ways of seeing, laughing, singing, eating, >meeting and parting. Our walk is different, as the old song goes, our talk and our >names. Nothing about us is quite the same as in the country to the north and >west. What we carry in our memories is different too, and that may explain >everything else." > >--Charles Kuralt in "Southerners: Portrait of a People" > > > >==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== >To search our list archives since 1996, go to >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >and enter Civil-War in the list name > >