[TomSmedley]

This guy is imminently more qualified to describe the pre-war South than Margaret Mithchell whose parents actually lived in it.

Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving in November, thinking of Massachusetts pilgrims rather than those Jamestown VA settler who held the first American thanksgiving feast a decade earlier? Because -- the winners write the history books. Ms. Mitchell was attempting to get around that sad fact of life by encoding her history into the form of a novel.

[stand watie]

actually, the FIRST THANKSGIVING feast was celebrated in EL PASO, TX in NOV of 1526 as "new religious holiday" of the Roman Catholic Church in NEW SPAIN.

and oddly enough for the SAME REASON: that BOTH the local Indians & Spaniards had nearly starved to death the previous winter & they had finally "gotten in a crop" that would carry them through the NEXT winter.

they had TURKEY,QUAIL,SQUIRRELS,tortillas,fresh fruit, CORN pudding, FISH, VENISON (among other dishes) & SWEETCAKES on the menu.

free dixie,sw