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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The irony here is that West Virginia is still officially listed as a southern state.


74 posted on 09/10/2005 8:51:16 AM PDT by Old Professer (Some infinitives deserve to be split.)
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To: Old Professer
The irony here is that West Virginia is still officially listed as a southern state.

I don't think that the South and the Confederacy are synonymous. There were a lot of Southerners from all over the region in the 1860s who did not drink the Confederate Kool-Aid. It's sad that the latter-day myth of the "lost cause" promotes a non-existant wartime "Solid South" that now tries to make Southerners feel like regional traitors if they don't feel sympathy for the slave owners' rebellion.

107 posted on 09/11/2005 6:06:31 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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