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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Is it hanging on to an old feud, or proper cultural subtext of our history?
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Depends on who you're talking to. I'm a history buff. But, there are those out there, still to this day, that are still fighting that war...in their own way. I used to do Civil War re-enacting, several years ago. The further south, and the more remote, that some of these events were held...the more the "true sons of the south" came out. 143 years after the fact, and to some of these guys it might just as well have been last year.
In so far as Jimmy Carter bristling over "Marching Through Georgia"...I don't blame him. Inappropriate, to say the least. While it's a fun and jaunty tune, it
is, after all, an old song glorifying the devastation of his home state, at the hands of Sherman's army. Clearly,
someone didn't listen to the words (other than Georgia) when they made that selection.