you aint from round here are you boy :laughing
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OK the war thing yes they are still pissed off The old timers liked the way of life that they had post-war even. Unfortunaltely to our discredit it is all about segragation 
for the most part the other is just controlling land aspects like deed restrictions and things like that they are bieng adopted in southern towns they mostly originated above the mason-dixon line. The boys just want to be left alone at thier slow pace of life and not have to worry about cooking off a batch of shine. Back in the day it you KNEW everyone in the county you knew right out who you could and couldn't trust you cause you knew all thier bizness and with the Northern cities overcrowding faster than the southern ones they feel they are bieng invaded.
for the most part the other is just controlling land aspects like deed restrictions and things like that they are bieng adopted in southern towns they mostly originated above the mason-dixon line. The boys just want to be left alone at thier slow pace of life and not have to worry about cooking off a batch of shine. Back in the day it you KNEW everyone in the county you knew right out who you could and couldn't trust you cause you knew all thier bizness and with the Northern cities overcrowding faster than the southern ones they feel they are bieng invaded.
I am amore confused than ever...
what exactly are you confused about??ziadel said:I am amore confused than ever...
Confused about whether or not to move to the south.lightner22 said:
Is there really a question?? Hell yeah move south, just not too far. Parts of Florida are more like New York, or Night of the Living Dead!GixxerBart said:Confused about whether or not to move to the south.
As a transplanted Yankee living in Atlanta, I've thought a great deal about this. I've noticed that northern kids are taught in school that the Civil War was mostly about the slavery. The Confederacy was formed (according to us Yankees) mostly to protect the economic system which had slavery as its backbone. There were other issues, but that's the main one.
Southern kids are taught that the CW was all about "states' rights". Well... that's true, if you consider the decision about whether to uphold slavery as a state's right. If you try to corner one of these "states' rights" people, they are hard-pressed to come up with another state's right (aside from slavery) that the Confederacy was protecting.
You do still hear people in the South calling the CW "The War of Northern Aggression"rolleyes ). I live about a half-mile from the old railroad Mile 0 marker, which was the heart of pre-Sherman Atlanta. I've read a lot of Atlanta history, and come across some real gems. For example:
On the east side of town, all the north-south streets change name at Ponce de Leon Ave. Why? In the days of racial zoning ordinances, whites didn't want to live on the same street as blacks.
In the old Rich's department store downtown in the days of Jim Crow, blacks and whites had to take separate elevators up, but could take the same elevator down. Why? Because (I am NOT making this up) blacks and whites would go to different heavens, but share the same hell.
What kind of demented mind came up with this stuff? :confused
Southern kids are taught that the CW was all about "states' rights". Well... that's true, if you consider the decision about whether to uphold slavery as a state's right. If you try to corner one of these "states' rights" people, they are hard-pressed to come up with another state's right (aside from slavery) that the Confederacy was protecting.
You do still hear people in the South calling the CW "The War of Northern Aggression"
rolleyes ). I live about a half-mile from the old railroad Mile 0 marker, which was the heart of pre-Sherman Atlanta. I've read a lot of Atlanta history, and come across some real gems. For example:On the east side of town, all the north-south streets change name at Ponce de Leon Ave. Why? In the days of racial zoning ordinances, whites didn't want to live on the same street as blacks.
In the old Rich's department store downtown in the days of Jim Crow, blacks and whites had to take separate elevators up, but could take the same elevator down. Why? Because (I am NOT making this up) blacks and whites would go to different heavens, but share the same hell.
What kind of demented mind came up with this stuff? :confused
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