[Savage Beast]

When army officer Scott Fitzgerald was stationed in Alabama, merely decades after the Civil War, the Yankee officers were very popular with the local girls and their mothers. One local complained that the Yankees should not be invited to social affairs. The Alabama ladies considered the complaint absurd. One outraged dowager famously huffed: "The Yankees are such good dancers!"

Even more famously, Scott married one of the Alabama girls--Zelda!--and together they ushered in The Jazz Age--but that's a looooooooooong story!

[RobbyS]

This was after the great "reconciliation" that began with the Spanish-American War, when northern troops were commanded by former Confederate officers.

[Xenalyte]

Sorta makes you wonder how many Alabama girls are named Zelda these days.

Bet not many, for which no doubt the Alabama girls are thankful.