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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lynda wrote:

> Bottomline is that the South has never been allowed to be the South.  The 
> North and the bookwriters and the balance of the U.S. have been pounded with 
> absolutely nothing but negatives and phoo phooing of all that is the South. 
> They have been painted as something evil and told to sit down and shut-up.

I think my problem is that students/people aren't taught the whole truth 
about what happened, and even when enlightened some people refuse to 
believe.


> However, when anyone tries to correct the deliberately reframed negative 
> image, they are painted into the corner of *supposedly* trying to defend the 
> indefensible.  They are "refighting the war."

Shoot, all that has to happen is that the subjects comes up and we are 
"refighting the war"



> James and Bev and Grampa Charlie are the South.  They are good, bad and 
> everything else that everyone else is. Sometimes quite stubborn and annoying 
> <g>  Plus a whole rainbow of other people.  They aren't reliving the war, 
> and what some are still trying to do is get the truth out there about what 
> really happened and what it was really about. 

Well, my genes are from up North, but via adoption, I was raised in the 
state of GA. Because GA is perpetually ranked near the bottom in 
education, I learn A LOT from those on this list.


B

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