I guess a Boot licking Yankee wouldn’t understand a man like Marse Lee, beyond your comprehension.
I think you have the position wrong my southern friend. If anyone was licking boots at the end of the war, it was not my northern ancestors.
All kidding aside (and I am kidding.)
I often wonder why Northern folks do not embrace their heritage. There seems to be more of a “winner’s guilt” up here about the fact that their great grandfathers fought for the Union. It is nothing like the pride of the south. I respect that.
Methinks that if things got nasty again, you and I would be on the same side this time.