[Elsie]

I like all the quotes on your home page!

But Illinois is NOT Yankeeland.

It’s DAMNED Yankeeland.

(Those Southern wounds have not scabbed over YET! ;^)

[imardmd1]

In New York State: "The Civil War"
In Virginia: "The War Between the States"
In South Carolina: "The War of Northern Aggression"
In Galena, Illinois: "The War of the Rebellion"

Galena was the home of U. S. Grant, and the inscription was on a monument there. Seen it.

[ought-six]

Well, Chicago is DAMNED Yankeeland. The rest of the state, not so much. :)