<p>POTO Mom, Greenville, SC? My D went to Furman freshman year. I sure miss that town - she does, too. She’s still in the south, but Nashville is a different kind of southern city than Greenville (a bit less “unhurried”).</p>
<p>Furman is a beautiful campus. My D could have a nice scholarship there but TOO CLOSE TO HOME and she knows too many people there. Downtown Greenville is a gem. Its successful development defies what has happened to most other main street towns.</p>
<p>OK, starbright, I’ll guess Vancouver, based on the unseasonable weather we saw in February ;).</p>
<p>“Free” health care…?</p>
<p>Earth to starbright…smile?</p>
<p>Starbright, I’m not guessing Vancouver because I know that there are a lot of chain stores in that area. I’m guessing Victoria even though Vancouver seems to have great public transport.</p>
<p>As for things I love about the South, it’s really hard because many things I can get in other parts of the country (grits, moon pies, Cracker Barrel, etc.). Thus, I’m going with SEC Football, which is harder to move than food or restaurants).</p>
<p>Oh, I thought by SEC you meant Securities and Exchange Commission. I guess you guys meant something having to do with football. Believe it or not I’m a guy who doesn’t follow or care about sports. If I wanted to watch guys run around in tight pants, I’d look out my window. <ducks></ducks></p>
<p>Bite your tongue - Cracker Barrel is a poor substitute for real southern cooking. Hashbrowns and casserole are not synonymous.</p>
<p>Good one Shrinkrap…but well, okay close enough for me. Our overall income tax rate is the same as it was back in NYC…and since we moved here, I haven’t seen a medical bill. </p>
<p>Sea_tide: Not entire absence of such stores of course, but by far very few, no mega-malls, big boxes are way out in the burbs, so mostly non-chains survive very well.</p>
<p>Someday soon I’m going to take a trip west of DC and go on a Civil War site tour. It may not be politically correct but it happened. I had to pass through the area recently and I was taken aback by all the names of battles and places I remembered so little about. Names like Mannassas and Shilo. I’ve been reading a bio of StoneWall Jackson and I want to go to Lexington Va. and also the museum of the Confederate Soldier.<br>
As a military wife, I know soldiers don’t make policy and so I hve no reservations about my interest in the civil war or as they used to say in the south, the war of northern aggression.
The Shenandoah valley is beautiful and I think I’ll do it in the fall when the leaves are turning.</p>
<p>Used to say???
heritage…heard it from my neighbor 3, 4 DAYS ago!!!</p>
<p>Kat
ps SHE finished the sentence with d**n yankees</p>
<p>Even young kids know where the Mason-Dixon line is and which states are on which side of it.</p>
<p>“Sooie pig” is cheer not a threat of litigation against the police.</p>
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I remember peanuts in Coke, too. And Coke tasted different back in the day, too–if you want Coke that tastes like it used to, you have to go to a Latin American store and buy glass bottle Cokes imported from Mexico–still made with sugar, not corn syrup. (You can also find glass bottle Cokes inported from Africa, but I’ve found some of those to have an odd taste.)</p>
<p>Growing up in southern Virginia, I never heard the terms “soda” or “pop” at all–a soft drink was a “Coke” or just a “drink.”</p>
<p>Even part of NJ is south of the Mason Dixon line.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard that visiting civil war battlegrounds is not politically correct. I grew up in Virginia and have visited many. I’ve been to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond. Not in the south, but Gettysburg is a must see. </p>
<p>I grew up near the site of a small civil war battle. I used to ride my horse there as a kid and play on and in the trenches. It has since been turned into a state park and is better preserved.</p>
<p>Nice map showing the states and the Mason-Dixon Line.</p>
<p>[Mason</a> Dixon Line](<a href=“http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/mason-dixon-line.htm]Mason”>http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/mason-dixon-line.htm)</p>
<p>Delaware remained a slave state during the War of Northern Aggression</p>
<p>[A</a> Brief History of the Mason-Dixon Surveys](<a href=“http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/]A”>http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/)</p>
<p>Visiting battlefields is not PC? Nah! Here is the Vicksburg, Miss. museum that has the Yankee Ironclad. It is really interesting to visit.[U.S.S</a>. Cairo - Civil War Ironclad in Vicksburg, Mississippi](<a href=“http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/vicksburg2.html]U.S.S”>U.S.S. Cairo - Civil War Ironclad in Vicksburg, Mississippi)</p>
<p>And if you visit Charleston, be sure to see the Hunley. [Friends</a> of the Hunley](<a href=“http://www.hunley.org/]Friends”>http://www.hunley.org/) It was the first sub ever to sink an enemy ship and then it disappeared and was recently raised. It changed the course of naval warfare. Quite an interesting story. If you read Clive Cussler novels, he was the one behind the search for the sub.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard that visiting civil war battlegrounds is not politically correct. I grew up in Virginia and have visited many. I’ve been to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond. Not in the south, but Gettysburg is a must see.</p>
<p>It isn’t politically incorrect to visit a civil war battleground. Some are actually national parks. I was at one in Chattanooga yesterday.</p>
<p>Love that there are people from Greenville on this site. H has relatives there…great little town.</p>
<p>Hunt thanks for the tip about Co-Cola, as it is called. I didn’t realize the stuff from Mexico is still made with azucar. Good to know…Speaking of south of the border???anyone?</p>
<p>If it is politically incorrect to visit civil war battlegrounds, then H has dragged my poor daughters, unwillingly, I might add, on some seriously politically incorrect road trips through the years. I am so grateful he is not a re-enactor is all I can say. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>The pc statement was written because I am reading about all the civil war era monuments that are quietly being removed and relocated in towns and college campuses across the south. Many are under the threat of removal and more are under discussion.
I perhaps carried over the pc talk about monuments to battlefields and perhaps they are not threatened. I hope they are properly funded and maintained so that they are not threatened or fogotten. I think it is valid to be concerned.</p>
<p>I am probably one of the few people who had a great grandfather who fought in the Civil War.(he married and had children very late in life). We have the letters he wrote from Antietum, as well as his sword, a newspaper from the South printed on wall paper, tintype photos of him in his uniform etc… Ive traveled with my father to all the battlefields that his grandfather fought at. This is the very first time I had any inclination that I might be “politically incorrect”. WOAH…</p>