I don't understand why there is such dispariity among bloggers on "The South". My generation was not taught "North vs. South" beyond 1865, but it seems the powers that be are interested only in dividing the country.
According to some of the posts, they're doing a pretty good job of it, so barf away, BB. Mind if I join you?
Didn't you learn your state's history as well as American History in school? Why should Americans be ashamed of where they come from? The regional cleansing that liberals have perpetrated on the South is what's shameful.
And one more thing. Just because Sherman burned his way through the South doesn't mean it ceased to exist in 1865. It's history continued on, and still does.