North or South...

[FromTexas]

Is this a rhetorical question?

 

[Railroad]

My mother's side were actually documented as being in Atlanta and one served as the pilot of a famous Ironclad warship for the South. My father's side was spread out more, but one prominent and directly traceable one fought at the Alamo (and there's a city in Texas named after him) and so I'd be willing to guess that side of the family was also Southern. So I voted Johnny Reb.

Given the choice in 1860, it would be very difficult for me to make up my mind. I suppose the slavery issue might have swayed me toward the North.

Good survey!

 

[Ken King]

69er.

 

[RoseRed]

 

[FromTexas]

This isn't the lunch tread.

 

[mAlice]

This isn't the lunch tread.

You made me LOL.

 

[carolinagirl]

I'm southern all the way. I was born in Florida, my mother is from Alabama and my pop is from North Carolina. I love everything that the south stands for, southern hospitality, southern drawl, mint juleps on the veranda, laid back afternoons in the sweltering heat. Men in light colored suits, women in fabric that caresses their curves. Spanish moss hanging from the limbs of trees, the scent of jasmine on the evening breeze. Salty foam on the ocean waves and sandy beaches sloughing away the edges. Pomp and circumstance interupted by a joke in poor taste and cigar smoke wafting through the room. The stroll through a friendly neighborhood, dotted with familiar smiling faces.....

:sigh: I miss Carolina.

 

[PrchJrkr]

South. Born in Virginia, raised in Southern Maryland.

Jerry Clower

May God bless his soul...

 

[Bustem' Down]

I was born in Virginia and raised in Texas, but I have to pick Yankee. I've never fit in in the south.

 

[dustin]

Didn't Maryland want to suceed to the Confederacy during the war but couldn't for one reason or another????

 

[virgovictoria]

I chose North. I chose North with a 2005 mind about slavery. I view the south with a lot of the wonderful represenations that Elaine brought forth, regardless of the era... but, now, having the knowledge that I/we do, I could not, in good conscience, ever choose to be a "Reb" in 1860. Ever.

 

[fttrsbeerwench]

South. Born in Virginia, raised in Southern Maryland.



May God bless his soul...

"Bless his heart"
He made me wanna eat grits again.

Gimme grits with gravy,
Gimme grits with cheese,
I'll take 'em when I can git 'em.
Just gimme some grits now please.

 

[migtig]

If it was 1860, I would be a repressed female who would be more concerend about her young'uns and what to serve with pheasant, and whether or not my sheets were starched enough, than what those silly menfolk were up to. And since I would have no political opinion, much less a thought of my own, and would be considered the property of my husband, no matter where I lived, I would have to pick none of the above. :shrug:

 

[Ponytail]

Yankee. The skiing just plain sucks in the South. Not to mention, when it DOES get that cold down yonder, between the southern twang and numb lips, there is NO way that I'd be able to understand a damn thing any of ya's rebels were talkin about. I wouldn't be able to tell if ya's were drunk, or freezing to death.

 

[Dixie]

I'm southern all the way. I was born in Florida, my mother is from Alabama and my pop is from North Carolina. I love everything that the south stands for, southern hospitality, southern drawl, mint juleps on the veranda, laid back afternoons in the sweltering heat. Men in light colored suits, women in fabric that caresses their curves. Spanish moss hanging from the limbs of trees, the scent of jasmine on the evening breeze. Salty foam on the ocean waves and sandy beaches sloughing away the edges. Pomp and circumstance interupted by a joke in poor taste and cigar smoke wafting through the room. The stroll through a friendly neighborhood, dotted with familiar smiling faces.....

and grits. You forgot grits.

 

[gwa]

Born and raised on the VA NC border, drinking good ole homemade corn whiskey, I do believe that I have some of Marcell, Udell and Clovis Ledbetter's blood in me. listen to CDB, Bocephus and Skynard

 

[ocean733]

Yankee. ...NO way that I'd be able to understand a damn thing any of ya's rebels were talkin about. I wouldn't be able to tell if ya's were drunk, or freezing to death.

When I first moved here, a friend (SOMD native) called and left a message on my machine. His accent is thicker than most here. I actually thought he was drunk.

 

[Railroad]

and grits. You forgot grits.

As in "Kiss my....?"

 

[Railroad]

I love Mimosa trees! NP had a ton of 'em in the yard of her last house, and I see about 20 new ones popping up through the ground at our house here. They're so pretty ... especially when they're in bloom with the hot pink blossoms.

We found and transplanted 3 to our yard here (had one in Goose Creek, S.C.); we moved them as seedlings from the woods. They're doing very well indeed!

 

[vraiblonde]

Now I'm definitely North because none of the things you Dixie Chicks are rhapsodizing about sound even remotely appealing to me. I'm an industry kind of person. I dig on the history of the steel mill and unions. I'm fascinated by old immigrant neighborhoods and Tammany Hall.

No mint julep for me, please - I'll have a Sam's.