[mware]

"Before the War, it was said the United States ARE. Grammatically it was spoken that way, and thought of as an collection of independent states.

And after the War it was The Unites States IS.

....It made us an IS."

Shelby Foote

[Reily]

“.......It made us an IS.”

and Bill Clinton still doesn’t understand the meaning of that word!

[stand watie]

Foote was correct & we are ALL the worse for becoming an "IS".

free dixie,sw