Here is a great pair books on the subject;
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South
http://www.thepoliticallyincorrectguidetothesouth.com/
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War,
http://www.conservativebookclub.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c7288
Think you know the South and Southern history?
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South gives you the facts behind scores of revelations like these:
The first of the 13 colonies to formally legalize slavery? (Hint: it’s not in the South)
How Georgia banned slaves - and lawyers - in its founding charter
Why the South is more important to the American Founding than the North
Throw away those history textbooks: How the South,not the North,started -and won — the American Revolution
How Southerners led the way in drafting the Declaration of Independence,the U.S. Constitution,and the Bill of Rights
Why Northerners - not Southerners - wanted slaves to be counted as property instead of people in the Constitution
Peculiar fact about the wealthy slaveholder whose court cases helped legalize slavery in Virginia: he was black
How Virginia militiamen created the American Midwest
Why Northern states threatened secession long before the Confederacy - and why they considered it Constitutional
How the expansion of the U.S. across the continent from 1830-1850 - which gave us the term “Manifest Destiny” - was largely a Southern achievement
Lewis & Clark? Southerners,of course
The first two Jewish members of the U.S. Senate? Yep,you guessed it
How Southerners outnumbered Northerners almost four to one among the heroes of the Alamo
Why slavery,which spread across all thirteen colonies,was far crueler in the North than the South
How the Northern colonies grew rich on slave trading - and revived slavery in the South just before it collapsed
New York City’s largest industry in 1860? The outfitting of slave ships
The site of a mass grave for slaves who were literally worked to death? Hint: it’s not in the South
Why economics - not slavery - was the driving force behind the War Between the States
How Lincoln twice refused — or actually revoked — orders for emancipating slaves
How Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation left more than 800,000 slaves in bondage in states aligned with or occupied by the Union
Black heroes of the Confederacy - and other great Southern blacks you won’t hear about during Black History Month
How the more civilized Southern way of war contributed to its defeat - in contrast to the North’s brutal “total war” against civilians and property
How the Northern victory dealt a death blow to states’rights - leading eventually to today’s all-powerful federal government
Why “Reconstruction” is the most misnamed period in American history
Why segregation,which didn’t exist in the antebellum South,was a legacy of Northern-imposed “Reconstruction”
How virtually all of America’s highest-ranking World War II generals had Confederate roots
How Southerners won World War II in the Pacific theater
How the South was making movies when Hollywood was nowhere
Why race relations in today’s South are much better than in the North - or anywhere else in America
What Yankee reporters don’t understand about the South
Why faith and family come first in the South
Why the South is naturally conservative (and the North is naturally liberal)
Why limited government and low tax rates are a Southern tradition
Why Northerners - white and black — keep moving South
Statistics show Southerners are happier than people in other regions - Clint Johnson shows you why
It’s a fact: Southern women dominate beauty pageants,and Southern men dominate in sports
Why blacks have been moving back to the South in droves
How American jazz,blues,and rock ‘n’ roll (when it was still music) all came from the South
Why blacks hold more - and more powerful - political offices in the South than in the North
Why Southern industry is booming,while the North’s is going bust
The second war against the South — the campaign to erase memory and history - and how it serves liberal interests
Why Southerners are overrepresented in the military - and no,it’s not poverty
The best American literature? Southern,of course - and our high school and college reading lists confirm it
10 Things Southerners Don’t Understand About the North (#1: Why isn’t Ted Kennedy in prison?)
“Why “Reconstruction” is the most misnamed period in American history”
That can’t be said often enough.
I hope they don't bring their liberal politics with them. I like your list. Its spot on.
Cool. Ping.
I have that book and it is very interesting.
shame the proper history is not taught in schools and it is a big shame most northerners(and I have lived up there) do not have any idea about the war of the causes, they actually think it was all over slavery and the north came down to the rescue of the blacks
I saved your post to my PC. Enjoyed it a lot. Thought provoking. Someday God willing I’ll make the move out of this crazy area.