I forgot to mention that I still have Southern relatives. I think of them as colonizers mostly, as they’re the hoy toy types.
I should mention, too, that while there are those who contend that “The South actually won the war” (I had one of those as a prof), the actual economic development of the South and its people was simply raided and cut off like a huge piece of granite after CW I in the Reconstruction. We know what happened there. It was pure revenge. Against all comers.
And that I blame on federalism. As far as I am concerned, the Statists won.
Being from North Dakota I aint too educated, so what exactly is “hoy toy”?