Let's pick on Marxists next...

Geof Starr gstarr at management21.com
Wed Oct 30 10:31:30 CST 1996


In response to clever quips like:
>South's gonna do it agin? What? Lose?
>> "The War of Yankee Aggression."
> ...And some of us still call it "The War to Give
> Southerners What They Damn Well Had Coming to Them."

...I myself whine:
> in my experience this obsession with alternate nomenclature for the
> American Civil War is much more likely to be mentioned by someone who
> does not live in the South than by someone who does. Such stereotyping
> is annoying enough to me that I've actually been keeping record in
> recent time: the ratio is about 5 to 2 (about 30 separate incidents over
> the past four years -- and yes, I _can_ say "anal retentive.")

Silly me, I forgot to ask the question that prompted me to post this in the
first place: Whoever started this thread, could I trouble you tell me where
you're from so I can add to my record? Private e-mail is fine, thanks!



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