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As a "border-state" Missourian with Southern heritage, I am dismayed by some of the posts I see here. I think that most Southerners decry all the "political correctness" today that tries to lump anything Southern or Confederate into the "extremist" or "reactionary" category. They know that the South is much more than Bill Clinton or any stereotypical Southern movie or TV character "crafted" out in Hollywood. The real South is about faith, family and strong ties to the land. And I daresay that the average Confederate soldier was fighting foremost to protect his family and defend his land. For me, the South means wonderful grandparents with integrity and humility; quilts being handed down in the family all the way from Virginia or North Carolina -- then through Tennessee and Kentucky -- before being gently draped on the edge of a family bed or rocking chair in Missouri; eating Oyster Dressing (from a several-hundred-year-old family recipe brought from Virginia) at Thanksgiving Dinner; and having Sunday dinner after church at my Grandmother's with lots of relatives gathered around several tables -- some makeshift -- to sample some of the best fried chicken in the world -- but always preceded by my Grandfather's saying of the blessing. I could go on and on, but I will rest my case here.

For me, the South means wonderful grandparents with integrity and humility; quilts being handed down in the family all the way from Virginia or North Carolina -- then through Tennessee and Kentucky -- before being gently draped on the edge of a family bed or rocking chair in Missouri; eating Oyster Dressing (from a several-hundred-year-old family recipe brought from Virginia) at Thanksgiving Dinner; and having Sunday dinner after church at my Grandmother's with lots of relatives gathered around several tables -- some makeshift -- to sample some of the best fried chicken in the world -- but always preceded by my Grandfather's saying of the blessing. I could go on and on, but I will rest my case here.

So what makes you think life is any different from that in the North? ---- unless you have been watching some stupid Hollywierd stereotype of the North?

If, one hundred years from now, a German youth decides that Nazism and the Third Reich have been victims of a "smear" campaign, and that the time has come for a "new look" at Hitler's glorious regime and the triumph of the brave men of the Wehrmacht...Well, it would be no more bizarre than those here who continue to put forth this huge, bogus myth about the rebellion of the slaveholding states in 1861.