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I see where Howard Dean has aroused the ire — and sheer political opportunism — of his Democratic rivals by claiming that he can talk real folks ’ language: "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pick-up trucks." First a lesson on language in these parts, Mr. Dean: That should be Confederate flags on their pick-up trucks; it’s the shotgun rack that goes in the truck. Sir, if you’re going to have much truck, literally, with the Good Ol’ Boy vote, you need to brush up on your prepositions. But, don’t you know,...

New York TimesAVERLY, Iowa, Nov. 1 — Howard Dean's rivals for the Democratic nomination roundly attacked him on Saturday for telling an Iowa newspaper he wanted "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks" in defending his opposition to some gun-control legislation. But Dr. Dean retorted that he had said much the same thing in front of largely black audiences months ago and said his opponents were merely flailing away at him in desperation. The fracas comes as the other contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination — especially Senator John Kerry and Representative Richard A....

The statehouse in Montpelier is pretty much what you'd expect: traditional Yankee colonial with a few bits of kitsch for the tourists. Portraits of fusty old Vermonters festoon the walls. Most are of former governors in funereal suits. Some of the old mustachioed grumps have sheets of parchment in their hands probably containing rows of numbers reflecting profligate spending on some luxury item, food for poorhouses perhaps. Theres even a portrait of the Sphinx of the Potomac, Calvin Coolidge. He looks every bit the taciturn Yankee. Across and just down the small hallway there hangs another gubernatorial portrait; the subjects...

On September 22 of this year, in the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail, liberal Yankee professor Paul Lewis made his case for certain parts of the U.S. to break away from the American union and join up with Canada as provinces. This is hardly the first time an outraged liberal Yankee has declared the need for such an action. A few years ago another upset Yankee writer advocated secession by the North and Left Coast from the South and most of the Western states. There are several mistakes in their thinking. For starters, these modern liberal secessionists think they...

Mugabe tells Bush: ‘Yankee, go home’ Harare: On the eve of US President George W. Bush’s visit to Africa where the Zimbabwean crisis is expected to be a dominant issue, President Robert Mugabe and his government turned up their abusive propaganda to new levels. If Bush was coming here to “dictate” to Africa, “then we will say, go back home, Yankee,” the state-controlled Sunday Mail quoted Mugabe as saying. Speaking at a ruling party rally in a remote rural area about 350 kilometres from the capital on Saturday, Mugabe also said that Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair “should...

RALEIGH - Co-Speaker of the House Richard Morgan is only the second Republican speaker in the past century and the highest-ranking GOP state legislator, but four months into his term, members of his own party are trying to reprimand him at their state convention in Charlotte next weekend. Morgan's critics, angry about the coalition he formed with House Democrats, vow to find Republicans to run against him and his four core supporters in next year's GOP primary. "The `Morgan Five' will definitely have primary opposition," said Rep. Frank Mitchell, R-Iredell. "When you get Republicans angry, they will go after you."...

INTRODUCTION: The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded. On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution, to keep the slaves in bondage; and was still willing to do so, if the slaveholders could be thereby induced to stay in the Union. The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be...

<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) --Ask most schoolchildren and they will tell you that Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher who simply used the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates into submission.</p>

KENNESAW — One of the first Medals of Honor ever awarded by the U.S. Congress will be a part of the expanded collection of the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw on Thursday.“To be able to have one of the first Congressional Medals of Honor in our exhibit strengthens our collection, and it’s an honor for us to present this significant moment in history,” Museum Director Jeff Drobney said Monday.The museum will unveil Sgt. John Scott’s Congressional Medal of Honor from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday.Scott, an Ohio native, was one of Andrews Raiders, a group...

What we call today "liberalism" was born in New England. In 1864, Orestes Brownson, a New Englander himself, wrote an essay contrasting Southern and Northern societies. His description of the New Englander describes exactly the modern liberal."The New Englander," Brownson wrote, "has excellent points, but is restless in body and mind, always scheming, always in motion, never satisfied with what he has, and always seeking to make all the world like himself, or as uneasy as himself."This desire to make everyone like himself is a major characteristic of the modern liberal. This is what paradoxically leads him to be anti-democratic,...

Southern Kindness, Yankee Stinginess Persist In Charity (Boston-AP, November 2, 2002) — Southerners still take the prize when it comes to charity, though a few Yankee states, including Connecticut, are making progress shedding their stingy reputations. Relatively poor Bible Belt states, headed by Mississippi, retain their lead in the latest "Generosity Index," a survey measuring the disparity between what residents of each state earn and what they give away. Mississippi has finished first in five of the six annual surveys. In the latest, the Magnolia State once again has the greatest disparity between its ranking among the states in wealth...

If your ever have to visit Yankee Country - like Boston (pronounced BAH-stin), this guide may help you understand what they are sayin', (but I doubt it). Pahty: A place to go to drink and socialize - nothing to do with Mother Nature. ah: The letter between "q" & "s." ahnt: Sistah of your fathah or muthah. bah: Serves beah and hahd likkah: "The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah." bay ah: Ferocious brown or black animal. beah: Malt beverage. bahn: As in: "What yeah were you bahn in?" bzah: Strange, odd. Chahlz: The rivah. chowdah: Clams, milk,...

"I here declare my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule -- to all political, social and business connection with the Yankees and to the Yankee race. Would that I could impress these sentiments, in their full force, on every living Southerner and bequeath them to every one yet to be born! May such sentiments be held universally in the outraged and downtrodden South, though in silence and stillness, until the now far-distant day shall arrive for just retribution for Yankee usurpation, oppression and atrocious outrages, and for deliverance and vengeance for the now ruined, subjugated and enslaved Southern States! ..And now...

NEW ORLEANS -- Cajuns have long learned to cope with being stereotyped as backward swamp dwellers, but phrases coined by national news media this week got their, as the caricature would have it, Tabasco-laden blood boiling. The words "Cajun Taliban" and "Ragin' Cajun" were used by ABC Radio and Time magazine in reference to Yasser Esam Hamdi, the second alleged U.S.-born Taliban. Hamdi was born in Baton Rouge to Saudi Arabian parents. "This guy is not a Cajun simply by virtue of being born in Louisiana," said Shane Bernard, a historian and archivist for the McIlhenny Company, which makes Tabasco...