Well, in my youth, that CERTAINLY was the prevailing opinion. Here is an absolutely true story of something that happened to me as a young teenager.
I grew up in Orlando, Florida. When I turned 16 I got a 1958 MGA and drove everywhere in it. Met this girl from Atlanta Georgia. She asked me if I would drive her to Atlanta to meet her family. I never before had driven so far from home, but agreed to do so. Drove all day and got to Atlanta just at Dusk. Atlanta was a far different town in those days, You could STILL see the CIVIL WAR DAMAGE from when Sherman marched to the sea. Anyhow, we pull up to their home and in the backyard was her Dad and GrandDad playing in a SANDBOX. They had the ENTIRE battle of Gettysburg set up with toy soldiers (Gawd I wish I had those soldiers today, would be worth a fortune) and she brought me over to meet them. They explained the battle to me, and said, see if Lee had done this, instead of that, the South would have won the battle and the North would have agreed to the Secession. I replied, "Yes, but he didnt". With that they threw me out of the house, in the dark of night, and I had no alternative but to drive all the way back to Orlando, all alone with no rest. Now, I was a Southerner, just imagin what they might have done to me if I were a YANKEE!! jdn |
