Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

[Matt Crunk]

So where would you draw the line?

I'd say the 13 states of the Confederacy pretty much defines the South to this day. The "heart" of the South would be Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and both the Carolinas.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Benny you have a point. As a Canadian I find Americans to be the nicest people you would want to meet, then every once in a while they go completely nuts.

Australians on the other hand, are reliably strange all the time but hardly ever show it.

Here's a tip, Stan: Australia started out as a convict nation . . . and in some ways it still is.

 

[Matt Crunk]

You mean the two solitudes.

Anywhere in the world outside the US, a Yankee is anyone from the United States.
In the South it is anyone from north of the Mason Dixon line.
In the North it is someone from New England.

I never understood how the Mason-Dixon line came to represent the line between North and South. It runs between Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware for God's sake.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland and Delaware were slave states.

 

[HudsonHawk]

My parents are from East Tennessee and they were a little embarrassed to admit that their part of the state generated as many regiments for the Union as they did for the Confederacy. I bet that caused some confusion among the US Army to see designations for numbered TN regiments in their armies...

Kind of like reminding a Texan that all their "national" heroes (Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Stephen F Austin, etc) were from Tennessee and Virginia.

 

[p51]

Kind of like reminding a Texan that all their "national" heroes (Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Stephen F Austin, etc) were from Tennessee and Virginia.

Yeah, years ago I went to the Alamo and they had a room in the mission building filled with flags representing each of the defenders who died. More TN flags than any other.
In 2012 there were no flags there and I asked why. One of the staff people admitted that all those Southeast state flags annoyed people...

 

[jamespowers]

Kind of like reminding a Texan that all their "national" heroes (Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Stephen F Austin, etc) were from Tennessee and Virginia.

Who cares? There ARE reasons why they left Tennesse and Virginia you know----they are called TEXAS.

 

[jamespowers]

Here's a tip, Stan: Australia started out as a convict nation . . . and in some ways it still is.

But you gave us Men at Work.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Who cares? There ARE reasons why they left Tennesse and Virginia you know----they are called TEXAS.

"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas" - Davy Crockett

 

[Benny Holiday]

But you gave us Men at Work.

Oh man! You remember those blokes JP?! I was a junior in high school then.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Yeah, years ago I went to the Alamo and they had a room in the mission building filled with flags representing each of the defenders who died. More TN flags than any other.
In 2012 there were no flags there and I asked why. One of the staff people admitted that all those Southeast state flags annoyed people...

Most likely only a few people..or maybe only 'one'. Seems like that's all the complaints it takes anymore to have everyone running for the hills to appease.
HD

 

[Zombie_61]

But you gave us Men at Work.

And Russell Crowe, Jeffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, and, of course, Paul Hogan.

 

[Veronica T]

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[Edward]

Here's a tip, Stan: Australia started out as a convict nation . . . and in some ways it still is.

I suspect the native population may rather disagree with you on this - weren't they there first?

I never understood how the Mason-Dixon line came to represent the line between North and South. It runs between Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware for God's sake.

Geography, schmography.... The most northern part of Ireland is in County Donegal, and it's south of the border...

Oh man! You remember those blokes JP?! I was a junior in high school then.

I was in primary school, and I remember their big hit... Long enough ago to forgive you all for them. Kylie Feckin' Minogue, on the other hand.....

And Russell Crowe, Jeffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, and, of course, Paul Hogan.

Ceptin', of course, that Russell Crowe is actually a Kiwi...

 

[HudsonHawk]

Most likely only a few people..or maybe only 'one'. Seems like that's all the complaints it takes anymore to have everyone running for the hills to appease.
HD

Eh...don't underestimate Texans' ability to get worked up over nothing, especially when it involves the Alamo.

 

[Renault]

Who cares? There ARE reasons why they left Tennesse and Virginia you know----they are called TEXAS.

Yep! Chances are if you were an American in Texas in the 1830's wasn't because you wanted to be. . It was just a "safer" place to hang out for some.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And Russell Crowe, Jeffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, and, of course, Paul Hogan.

What, no mention of Errol Flynn?

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I suspect the native population may rather disagree with you on this - weren't they there first?

Yes, they were, but "Australia" isn't a place, or just a piece of geography, it's a social construct, which didn't exist before the arrival of the surplus Irish population. Many Irish were exported in the 19th Century, including one of my great-great grandfathers, but in his case, it was to Pennsylvania.

In the U.S., we had our own penal colony, Georgia. In Georgia's case, the prisoners were mostly from debtors prisons, and not convicted of offenses which were ordinarily considered crimes.

 

[HudsonHawk]

In the U.S., we had our own penal colony, Georgia. In Georgia's case, the prisoners were mostly from debtors prisons, and not convicted of offenses which were ordinarily considered crimes.

Where I grew up, just being from Georgia was a crime.

 

[jamespowers]

Oh man! You remember those blokes JP?! I was a junior in high school then.

Yes, I remember them. I think I still might have the tapes around somewhere.