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From: "Rick and Susan" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Wars
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:33:05 -0400
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You know, I just don't understand.
My ancestors were solidly yankee, but I grew up in the west.
I guess I considered myself neutral. I love history and have read the views of both sides which are very different. I have always felt the truth to be somewhere in the middle.
But the southern culture is very gracious and slow to offend and take offence. Yet Yankees feel they can say whatever they choose? Before moving south & marrying a southern man, I thought that was the right thing to do; speak up, correct errors, say my piece.

Now I consider another's feelings more important than what I feel I need to say. I have never been called a Damm Yankee. I am proud of my Yankee forbears, just as my husband is proud of his confederate.

I wonder why the two different cultures can't co-exist together? Hispanics are encouraged to keep their culture. I wonder why the southern culture is so discouraged? One reason may be the profound lack of understanding due to ignorance of history.

It's okay to glorify the north, but not the south?
Seems like a similar attitude greeted the Huguenots? No allowance for thinking differently? No allowance for a different worldview?

The hostility I have encountered, about the Civil War, in my life, has not been from the southern culture. We were at war with England at one time. Is there hostility yet? Germany? Spain? Japan?

IMO,
Susan

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