NomAnor wrote:no no no you misunderstood i ment Yankees like north of the mason dixon line
BTW Maryland and Washington DC are both south of the Mason and Dixon.... I don't know anybody calling Maryland the South.
But I get what you're sayin'... I'm NOT a Yankee, I'm from the TRUE North. I'm an US citizen from North of parts of Canada. Yankees are these Eastern guys from New England and New York and what not.... I'm as Yankee as a guy from Texas is "southern" Y'all are from TEXAS you are your own damn region hell country...... not "the south"....
North of this line is truely Yankee land. Btw, what is the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee? A damn Yankee won't go home.
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
There ain't no jobs at "home" and at least I pay taxes like everybody else. Actually according to my Military record I'm still a Michigan resident that happens to live just about to North Carolina.... We're all people in the USA anymore (like it or not and I bet you do) and if you ask me every boy that died in that war was an American hero and they thought they were doing the right thing for their country. But hey I'm tired and I'm goin to bed. I'll get back at you later.
Maise n blue. 70's era student. SMU students are from all over the world, and while a majority are from Texas, most are not just from North Dallas. I remember a guy running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois came to SMU's campus trolling for votes back in the 70's because we had quite a few students from the Chicago and Southern Illinois (near St. Louis) area. I was (and am again) from the DC area. I think I had the only Redskins bumper sticker on campus. Still passionately follow the Mustangs despite our 25 years in the wilderness since the DP. I am pumped that we are in the Big East so that I can go to games nearby to where I live. I've gone to away games at Navy, N.C. State, ECU, Marshall, Penn State, and UNC over the years.
First off the 36th parallel is a better line dividing north and south, although I think that excludes kentucky and the virginias. Also, in the words of William Blakley, "Texas is neither Southern nor western, Texas is Texas"
couch 'em wrote:First off the 36th parallel is a better line dividing north and south, although I think that excludes kentucky and the virginias. Also, in the words of William Blakley, "Texas is neither Southern nor western, Texas is Texas"
I work in Alexandria, Virginia which was occupied by Union Troops for most of the Civil War. There is a plaque commemorating a martyr for the southern cause, there is still a Daughters of the Confederacy chapter here in Alexandria, there is a statue of a Confederate soldier facing south on Washington Street commemorating the Confederate dead. My recollection is that Sonny Jurgensen while driving drunk in the wild old days ran into that statue and the solider ended up facing north. So, Virginia is part of the south even now, northern Virginia acts like it doesn't belong to the rest of the Commonwealth. If you go to Richmond which was the Capital of the Confederacy and drive on Monument Avenue, you'll see many statues in honor of Southern Heros. If you go to Chancellorsville (outside of Fredericksburg), Bull Run (outside of Manassas), Appomattox, you'll find lots of southern history. And as far as Maryland being part of the south, they did not secede during the Civil War, but many in Maryland owned slaves and soldiers from Maryland fought for both sides. The battle at Antietam Creek (outside of Hagerstown) was one of the bloodiest of the Civil War. And if you drive from Maryland into Pennsylvania there is of course a sign telling you that you are crossing the Mason-Dixon Line. Lastly, George Wallace won the Maryland democratic primary in 1972 shortly before he was shot (he was a segregationist). Thus endeth todays History lesson. Professor Breeden was such a Virginiafile, I figured he would have passed along some of this knowledge.
EastStang wrote:I work in Alexandria, Virginia which was occupied by Union Troops for most of the Civil War. There is a plaque commemorating a martyr for the southern cause, there is still a Daughters of the Confederacy chapter here in Alexandria, there is a statue of a Confederate soldier facing south on Washington Street commemorating the Confederate dead.
I'm betting we live about 5-10 minutes away from each other hah.
