[Fairview]

Eli Whitney was a Yankee. His improvement was the cotton gin, and this was the basis for cotton as a profitable crop. The Southrons stole his invention, not really a terribly polite thing to do.

I'm sorry, what on earth does that have to do with my contention in Post 23 (to which you are replying) that most conservative Yankees share important values with conservative Southerners? Are you actively attempting to create hard feeling between Americans of different regions or did you have some other point?

[Donald Meaker]

Your post complained about how Yankees wanted to improve things.

I merely pointed out that the antebellum south was to some extent a creation of those Yankee improvements.

We were then, and are now, and G-d willing, always shall be, one nation.