[WhiskeyPapa]

There were (and still are) more differences between Yankees and Southerners than between Yankees and English-speaking Canadians.

That says it all.

That's not how George Washington saw it:

"Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of american, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes."

George Washington, 9/17/96

That's more true now that it was in 1796.

Gee whiz.

It's just like someone said on FR after 9/11. "They may be Yankees, but they're OUR Yankees."

Walt

[agrandis]

yankees were good Americans at the time of George Washington. A lot of the early heroes were Yankees. Now, they're like Canadians, by and large, which I won't even go into (I except Alberta from that statment).

[agrandis]

Washington:"...you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles..."

It was the Yankees that betrayed that religion (embracing shades of Unitarianism), manners, habits, and political principles. There is as great a difference in the cultures of the regions today as there ever was. Now, it is more pronounced in the urban vs. rural areas.

[Aurelius]

"That's not how George Washington saw it"

This may come as a shock to you Walt, but George Washington was not God; he was not infallible; neither he nor Abraham Lincoln were members of the Holy Trinity, which already had 3 members without them.