I don’t know where you are from, or where you were raised,
but I trace my roots to Colonial Georgia prior to the Revolution.
“The Party of Lincoln” is why the south voted democrat for generations.
My mama is still living, born 1920.
She was orphaned at age 8, and was raised by her grandfather, born 1867,
he was the son of a Confederate veteran.
Oh, the stories that she was told...and then told to me...
It really was not all that long ago, in the great scheme of things.
My Dad was a northerner, son of immigrants from Sicily. My Mom was a southerner from Roanoke Island, NC and a pre-revolutionary family that become very famous in the Coast Guard. I saw blacks in NC treated much better and with more respect than I ever saw when living in NJ.
I am a Virginian though I have great disgust for many citizens of that once great state. For the rest of the world, I am an American and proud of it.