Pam you said in a few paragraphs what I could not have said in a book length narrative. Everyone has a heritage and generally speaking everyone should be proud of their heritage, but we in the South take umbarge when people belittle our Southern ancestors who fought and lost a war in which they were greatly outnumbered and vastly out produced by their Yankee foes but willingly suffered and died for their core beliefs and not to preserve the legal slavery that probably would have died a natural death in short number of years.

Three cheers!! Hip Hip Hurrah.