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To: tejek who wrote (327835)	3/3/2007 11:01:16 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577125

"Meanwhile the North saw it as the South stealing jobs." Yep. Not saying it was fair, but the companies made out pretty well. It contributed to the burning resentment that many Southerners carried for all those years. Once there was a thriving middle class, most of that was dropped like a hot rock. By the late '70s, about a generation of economic growth, it was hard to find someone who still brooded over The Lost Cause, War of Northern Aggression or any of the other terms some like to use. Oh, you can still find many people who will get into heated discussions over it, but most don't have a deep, emotional tie to the issue. Now there still are some Yankees who think all Southerners are inbred, stupid, uneducated racists. We encourage that, it means they underestimate us as opponents. "I have never spoken to an East German but I suspect its mutual." I only have a very limited sample. But, after driving through the old East Germany, I suspect you are correct. Almost all of their industry dried up and blew away with Reunification. To make it worse, even their farm products had trouble in the market, although that might have changed. Those in the East wanted western products, as those in the West. And that left the producers in the East, well, nowhere.