>I have no interest in my American Revolution or Civil War connections, DAR, >or DOC or DOU organizations. I think that so much has been made of these >periods of our history that we have lost site of many other important things >in our growing culture. I see people who use that "heritage" as a crutch, >never learn to think beyond that period of our history. I sure got tired of >listening to the South about their southern heritage. Golf was taking over >there to help the economy and the southerners just wanted to cling to the >past, cling to life that kept the vast majority who live there in poverty. I >hope we are made up of more than that. Guess that is N talking. Heh. It was Reconstruction that put "the vast majority in poverty" -- not our way of life. If you don't like hearing Southerners talk about their heritage, then don't come here! I sure as heck have no desire to go up North and tell Yanks how to live and how to think. I'm not that dang self-righteous. Georgia in Alabama