Reply #16: As a Damned Yankee*

[Tsiyu]

I just have one question. Are Southerners glad to be in the Union now or what? Seems we've been through a mess of conflicts TOGETHER but around my parts and in much of the South, there are still those who fly the Rebel flag as if Sherman was just around the corner. A few of them were replaced with the Stars and Stripes after September 11th (it was funny and odd to me to suddenly hear Southerners speak fondly of New York. Prior to 9/11, when a Southerner asked where i was from I'd answer with a question of my own: "Well, which state do you hate the most?" 99.9% of the time they'd guess correctly - New York State. The rest of the time they'd say "Alabama")

And why are so many white Southerners eager to "forget" and 'move past" (read: forget about prosecuting) the atrocities done to their black brethren during Civil Rights days, but unwilling or unable to forget what was done to them in wartime 100 years earlier? Huh? Huh?

BTW* Damn Yankees are those who come South and stay....