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To: uncbob
But I find it completely ironic how over 140 years after the War of Seccession ( yes I have come to se it was NOT a CIVIL WAR ) that the most patriotic Americans are those living in the SOUTHERN and WESTERN ( not Pacific Coast ) states and that most of the Anti American hating types live in the Union States ( and their reprsentatives in congress reflect that fact )

Yes, and Massachusetts, the "hotbed" of unionism, is the wackiest, most America-hating of them all. As I have noted previously, Bill Clinton technically came from Dixie, but yankeeland elected him. Twice. The only dissenter from that region was Indiana.

42 posted on 03/05/2003 8:58:09 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
>> Yes, and Massachusetts, the "hotbed" of unionism, is the wackiest, most America-hating of them all. As I have noted previously, Bill Clinton technically came from Dixie, but yankeeland elected him. Twice. The only dissenter from that region was Indiana. <<

Acutally, most of New England was full of pacifist liberals who urged to let the south go in peace and kept trying to push for a caese-fire and armitace. New England has never liked wars, going back to 1812. It was the midwestern states that was the hotbed of unionism. Not that that matters to you.

As for Clinton, Indiana was the only "yankee" state not to vote for him if you pretend the rest of the midwest, such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas-- don't exist. If you're going to insist that's not "yankeeland" even though many of those states were around during the civil war supported the union (go to their state capitols some time and see who gets all the press in LINCOLN, Neb.) then be consistant for once and stop calling Californians "yankees" (can't get much further SOUTHwest than Califonia) I also see you've conviently forgotten the majority of southern states voted for Clinton (Missouri, Kentucky, West Virgina, Maryland, Tennesee, Georgia--home of the "Zell Miller is God" club of "conservatives"-- Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida) and that little matter about Presidential elections in the 1st half of the 20th century. We've talked at length about the 1916 election results and you've insisted everyone is aware of it, but then you get amnesia yourself.

And I love your excuse about how FDR is not the south's fault because "yankees voted for him to". He got about 55% of the vote in most midwestern states, compared to about 80-90% of the vote in most of the former confederate states. And he didn't even bother to campaign in most of those one-party states. Gee, I wonder where all the opposition to him was? My grandpa NEVER voted for Franklin, did yours?

Finally, speaking of those evil yankees, I'm guess you have no clue where Phyllis Schalfy is from.

57 posted on 03/07/2003 4:08:29 PM PST by BillyBoy (George Ryan deserves a long term...without parole.)
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