[cowboyway]

by conviction and ancestry I am a scalawag

scalawag - a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest);rogue: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

Now that is something to be proud of. Of course, I guess that's a step up from being just a plain damnyankee.

BTW, what Southern state are you proud to be a scalawag from?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

My people came from Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina. Up in the mountains where in the mid 1800s people generally thought of themselves as Americans and not Southerners.

Sadly, there was many good people in the lowland South who were ill-served and misled by the movers and shakers of the slaveowning interest. A relic of the old Unionists is found in Harrogate Tennessee where Lincoln Memorial University has the motto "We wear his name proudly ".

[Donald Meaker]

So would you suggest that Buck Watie was a scalaway, in that he sold out the Cherokee for personal gain?

Was Stand Watie a scalawagus interuptus in that he tried to sell out the Cherokee again, but was interupted by the Union victory?