wished to look at area attitudes, there must be some area between certain south and certain north where people are more balanced in their feelings about the Civil War and its ramifications.
nothing to do with the Mason-Dixon survey line.
state, I know people who have hardly any feelings about the Civil War and others who are bigoted to embarrassment of those around them.
sure why, but there is a crossing of Bryant Creek about a mile from here named Nigger Ford.
is so-called because a black family lived Tthere.
just above the Arkansas line, may have a black person, but I have not met them.
in Springfield, Missouri, named for the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield on August 10, 1861
I'm glad I grew up in a place where the Civil War was simply a very sad occurrence in our history. I'd not want to carry around the negative baggage that some seem to do.
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