North or South...

[mAlice]

and grits. You forgot grits.

Grits and shrimp.

 

[jazz lady]

Grits and shrimp.

I've lived all across this country, but the south always has my heart.

 

[vraiblonde]

Grits and shrimp.

The best part about the south is that they invented barbecue. Pulled pork and brisket

 

[CableChick]

My father was born in NY and my mother in NC. I was born in NC and lived everywhere from NY, Ohio, Va and North Dakota. I've got the best of both worlds!

 

[Dixie]

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!

Goose Creek!!!!!! I graduated from Goose Creek High School. Lived on the Naval Weapons Station - Marrington Circle.

 

[Tomcat]

I was just telling someone the other day about Jerry Clower, I'm actually suprised how many here know who he was. Oh yea, born and raised North of the Mason Dixon line.

 

[morganj614]

Best of the north..fresh Maine lobster, steamers, autumn leaves crunching under your feet and jumping in piles of them... snow, skiing, sledding, ice skating, eating icicles and hot chocolate after building a snow fort with the kids. Spring and maple syrup running in the lines. Summer and swimming in the gorge, the mountains cool air and the coastline of New England.

 

[Tomcat]

Hope this works. One of Jerry Clower's most famous and one of mine is HERE

 

[Big Momma]

My daddy always used to say "Don't ever bring a Yankee home with ya from hunting, they's too hard to clean.".

 

[BuddyLee]

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

It was thought to be split but most agree that it was more for the South than for the North. One of the only reasons it didn't succeed to the South was because of D.C.

D.C. as you know, is surrounded by Virginia (stronghold for the rebs) and Maryland. If Maryland succeeded to the South D.C. would be nothing, or so Lincoln and his generals thought. It is because of this that a few forts were built namely at the Point Lookout site. The North intercepted a letter from the South which explained an elaborate attack against D.C. The rebs would come across the Potomac from Virginia and land near Point Lookout and march straight for D.C. collecting local southern Maryland sympathsizers along the way. In fact, there were numberous sympathsizers or people who were thought to be sympathsizers thrown in the prison complex, once it was built.

After word got out that the rebs might make a quick dash for D.C. the North built three forts at Point Lookout, Fort Lincoln being the one closest to the Potomac has been reconstructed for your viewing pleasure today. Fearing the worst, Lincoln and his generals decided to open a prison complex (PLO), in fact the largest prison complex the North would have, Andersonville being the largest the South had. Conditions were just as bad as Andersonville. More often than not, wounded or black regiments were sent to take watch over the rebs. I believe 52,000 prisoners passed through its gates in it's time and anywhere from 2-14 thousand (depending on who you speak to) are reported as parishing.

Need anymore info I've got tons of books, sites, and people you can reach.

 

[Tomcat]

It seems to work, so here's ANOTHER

 

[jazz lady]

Best of the north..fresh Maine lobster, steamers, autumn leaves crunching under your feet and jumping in piles of them... snow, skiing, sledding, ice skating, eating icicles and hot chocolate after building a snow fort with the kids. Spring and maple syrup running in the lines. Summer and swimming in the gorge, the mountains cool air and the coastline of New England.

I love visiting the northern states, especially those in New England, but...oh those winters! *brrrrr*

 

[sleuth]

I would have been an abolitionist.
Even though history says otherwise that the issue was merely a side effect of the war, slavery was the biggest moral issue of the war.

And that would have put me firmly in the Yankee camp, for that reason alone.

 

[nomoney]

though not my thing now because I'm being politcally correct and all- doing family research there are many plantations down in Louisiana and georgia that once belonged to family-so thats that in a nutshell

 

[vraiblonde]

I love visiting the northern states, especially those in New England, but...oh those winters! *brrrrr*

There is no Southerner who appreciates:

The pleasure of curling up by the fireplace with a cup of cocoa while a snow storm is wailing outside.

Change of season

The smell of fall air

LL Bean jackets and boots

Making a snowman and snow angels

Why it's funny to get your tongue stuck to the light pole

Why Northerners make fun of people who can't drive in snow and ice

How tube socks and a flannel nightie can be considered sexy

 

[morganj614]

There is no Southerner who appreciates:

The pleasure of curling up by the fireplace with a cup of cocoa while a snow storm is wailing outside.

Change of season

The smell of fall air

LL Bean jackets and boots

Making a snowman and snow angels

Why it's funny to get your tongue stuck to the light pole

Why Northerners make fun of people who can't drive in snow and ice

How tube socks and a flannel nightie can be considered sexy

I did that to my sled runner

 

[ocean733]

There is no Southerner who appreciates:

The pleasure of curling up by the fireplace with a cup of cocoa while a snow storm is wailing outside.

Change of season

The smell of fall air

LL Bean jackets and boots

Making a snowman and snow angels

Why it's funny to get your tongue stuck to the light pole

Why Northerners make fun of people who can't drive in snow and ice

How tube socks and a flannel nightie can be considered sexy

I agree. But I lived up north and didn't appreciate it either. I hate the cold! No sun! Shorter days! Snow!

One benefit: I drive well in the snow.

 

[jazz lady]

There is no Southerner who appreciates:

You're right

The pleasure of curling up by the fireplace with a cup of cocoa while a snow storm is wailing outside.

A cold beer, a hammock, and a warm breeze watching a storm come ashore

Change of season

Different degrees of summer

The smell of fall air

The smell of the air after a thunderstorm

LL Bean jackets and boots

Shorts and bare feet

Making a snowman and snow angels

Getting buried in the sand

Why it's funny to get your tongue stuck to the light pole

Why it's funny the dumbazzes up north do stupid things like that

Why Northerners make fun of people who can't drive in snow and ice

Why Southerners make fun of people who HAVE to drive in snow and ice

How tube socks and a flannel nightie can be considered sexy

How next to nothing at all is MUCH more sexy

 

[morganj614]

You're right



Why it's funny the dumbazzes up north do stupid things like that

I was eight years old I had to carry the sled on my tongue to a friends house so her dad could pour warm water on it.

 

[vraiblonde]

I had to carry the sled on my tongue to a friends house so her dad could pour warm water on it.

Do we dare ask why you were licking your sled in the first place?