What would you list...??
Let me interject a sec, because I'm a 13th generation Yankee who moved south 21 years ago.
We know how to vote and keep the states Red, unlike, most anyone north of the Mason-Dixon. We have a much better mix of cuisine. We can decorate homes a hell of a lot better. Our single-wides are nicer than northern ghetto homes. We don't take two decades to repair a highway and we can build tunnels underwater better than Northerners can through mountains. And last, we don't tax ourselves into the poor house.
“What would you list...??”
Wrong person to ask. Ask a proud Southerner.
I am sure there a plenty of worthy claims, besides slavery.
“Would you List?”
OK, here is a few of many
Southerners led the way in drafting the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Northerners - not Southerners - wanted slaves to be counted as property instead of people in the Constitution.
It was Southerners who defeated the British at Kings Mountain and Cowpens, rikindling the shattered hopes of the Northerners who were growin tired of the war that we were not winning.
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
Southerners outnumbered Northerners almost four to one among the heroes of the Alamo
How virtually all of America’s highest-ranking World War II generals had Confederate roots
The South was making movies before Hollywood.
The South is naturally conservative (and the North is naturally liberal)
Limited government and low tax rates are a Southern tradition
Northerners - white and black — keep moving South
It’s a fact: Southern women dominate beauty pageants, and Southern men dominate in sports
American jazz, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll (when it was still music) all came from the South
Blacks hold more - and more powerful - political offices in the South than in the North
Southerners are overrepresented in the military.