This may be, but why is it, then, that when I was growing up through our infamous public edjerkashun system, it was always inferred that the North was right and Lincoln (patron saint of the Republican Party) should be celebrated? Yeah, I attended schools in northern states, but this just seems very odd if the "Orwellian" 'Rats truly controlled the textbooks.
Southern edjerkated FReepers chime in here.