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This civil war fetish is comical.
Not having grown up in the South, it has always thrown me a bit when the Civil War or "Yankees" come up in conversation when I'm there. It definitely seems like that identity is a big part of southern culture and there isn't a similar identity from people born north of the Mason-Dixon. There's a weird (to me, at least) fixation on "southern" whether it's cooking, hospitality, or whatnot that's quite different.
 
Not having grown up in the South, it has always thrown me a bit when the Civil War or "Yankees" come up in conversation when I'm there. It definitely seems like that identity is a big part of southern culture and there isn't a similar identity from people born north of the Mason-Dixon. There's a weird (to me, at least) fixation on "southern" whether it's cooking, hospitality, or whatnot that's quite different.
Growing up in Texas, anyone north of Dallas is a yankee.
 
Not having grown up in the South, it has always thrown me a bit when the Civil War or "Yankees" come up in conversation when I'm there. It definitely seems like that identity is a big part of southern culture and there isn't a similar identity from people born north of the Mason-Dixon. There's a weird (to me, at least) fixation on "southern" whether it's cooking, hospitality, or whatnot that's quite different.
Provincialism is annoying anywhere*. ”The South” is just such a large space and population with that common identity. And that common identity is so obviously tainted with slavery that it makes it even worse.


*See Haole in Hawaii and ”From Away” in Maine, for example. Oh, **** off with that ****.
 
Not having grown up in the South, it has always thrown me a bit when the Civil War or "Yankees" come up in conversation when I'm there. It definitely seems like that identity is a big part of southern culture and there isn't a similar identity from people born north of the Mason-Dixon. There's a weird (to me, at least) fixation on "southern" whether it's cooking, hospitality, or whatnot that's quite different.
I was at a wedding in Atlanta many moons ago talking with an extremely attractive blond southern bell. Being at a wedding, I was hoping for the best as you might imagine.

We were talking about where people in the south went for a vacation and she said in the sweetest southern voice,

“Well, I used to luv to go to Hilton Head Sout Carolina, but it got rooned by all those gawd damn…..

Right then, in that instant, the hair on the back of my neck stood up as I realized that I was in the south and that they were far more racist than my hometown of Denver. I was sure that she was going to use the “n” word, and I really didn’t know how I was going to react to that word or how I was going to respond.

….Yankees.”

PHEW!!!

I said with a smile, “Well sweetheart, I’m a Yankee”

She said, “Nah, you are a Westerner, You people are great”

“Well what is a Yankee then?”

“Oh you know people from OHIOOH and New York and place like that.”

I thought about explaining the differences between the Midwest and the East Coast, but then I remembered the mission….

“I hate those bastards too.”

Carry on.
 
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