[Fwd: [ale] Future Meeting space] (also getting OT)

[Ben Coleman]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 01:20:15 -0400 (EDT), Thompson Freeman wrote:

>Within the US, generally southern: A Yankee is from/living north of the
>Mason-Dixon line.

Around here, this is pretty much what I expect.  It still leaves me in
somewhat of a quandry.  I may have been born in the mid-west, but I
spent most of my life in West Virginia.  Technically, I lived *just*
south of the Mason-Dixon line (which, IIRC, is pretty much at the
southern WV/Pennsylvania border, right?).  OTOH, West Virginia took
advantage of the Civil War (also known to some as The War of Northern
Aggression) to break away from Virginia and join the Union (that's why
there *is* a West Virginia, rather than it just being the western part
of Virginia).  To some, this may put me squarely in the Yankee camp.

OTGH, Stonewall Jackson came from WV (that's why there's a state 4H
camp called Jackson's Mill), and WV was probably more split on the
issue than may appear from the movement for separate statehood (I
understand there were cases of brothers from WV families fighting on
opposite sides).

Ben
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