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just as a sidenote (i hope this hasn't been said in this thread already):
i'm in alabama for a short while... i actually heard someone call the "civil war" the "war of northern agression" in plain speech. that is to say, without the aire of the expression being a novelty of any sort. also, a person i met down here originally from Maine has told me he was once kicked out of a bar once the patrons heard his northern accent. wow.
alabamans (alabamians?) have been great to me so far... but i sure was surprised that any of that sentiment was still around.
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~ Winston Churchill
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