[Phantom Lord]

This yankee here is offering full apology for my ancestors horrible acts of bringing electricty, running water and indoor plumbing, and pavement for your roads.

Please accept my humble apology and hopefully the yankees remaining up north will stay there and bring no more technological advances to your precious "south".

[Aurelius]

"This yankee here is offering full apology for my ancestors horrible acts of bringing electricty, running water and indoor plumbing, and pavement for your roads."

Your ancestors did that? Did they cart it down themselves?

[Shooter 2.5]

Last Wednesday was the 100th anniversary of Air Conditioning.
Air Conditioning-the real reason for the rising of the South.

[Centurion2000]

This yankee here is offering full apology for my ancestors horrible acts of bringing electricty, running water and indoor plumbing, and pavement for your roads.

Ok, now imagine where you'd be without nukes. (Invented in the South)

[My2Cents]

Good point. Had the Confederacy succeeded, today it would be a backward third-world country that would make Mexico look like the height of civilization. A nation built upon the principle of slavery was corrupt from the start, and doomed to further degeneration.

[Gaston]

This yankee here is offering full apology for my ancestors horrible acts of bringing electricty, running water and indoor plumbing, and pavement for your roads.

Sir John Crapper of England is credited for the design and implementation of modern indoor plumbing. Restrooms/ Bathrooms are still referred to as "The John" or "The Crapper."

The first road use of asphalt occurred in 1824, when asphalt blocks were placed on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. North Carolina was the first state to connect all county seats with paved roads (in 1926) and by the mid 1930's became the first state in which all cities of more than 500 people were connected by paved roads. Then known as the good roads state.

1879 First commercial power station opens in San Francisco, uses Brush generator and arc lights.

[wtc911]

Yes, we'll promise to stay up here and enjoy the pleasures of the confederacy through their wonderful TV travel show seen every Saturday night on FOX....COPS.

[TexConfederate1861]

My aren't we Smug....Pray tell why you think Yankees brought these inovations?