That is a good question since I always wanted to be the Confederate when we played “war between the states” as children. My father’s ancestors showed up pretty early in American history, a direct DNA line to a Virginian man in 1646. I spent some time in New Orleans and Mississippi in the 1970’s and felt right at home with the locals - people in the south are so well mannered and friendly they remind me of small town Alaskans (we lived there 25 years).
I guess I always felt a bond with southerners and plan on making an extended trip within a few years.
good for you...i was curious
as a boy we had kin in Santa Fe NM and some in Marin area in northern kali
to me as a lad it seemed like the promised land and the west was the future and I would surely live in northern Kali or maybe Montana
then I spent a bulk of my young adulthood between NYC and the tropical third world
now having been back in the South for 14 years, it would feel odd now in middle age to live anywhere else
What a very interesting exchange between you two.
My family has been in Mississippi since well before it was a state.
I’ve been in Oregon for almost 20 years. I left Mississippi when I was 19 years old, and have lived from CA to NC...and points inbetween...since then.
I have 3 grandchildren who visit Texas and Mississippi only once a year, but the South has rubbed off on them...or maybe it’s their genes.
All of them...even the youngest at 12...love sweet tea, and one knows how to make it properly. For the most part, their taste in food is more Southern.
The biggest surprise for me is that my born and raised Oregonian son-in-law would fit in better in Mississippi than he does out here....food wise, attitude wise, and politically speaking.
And, I was afraid my daughter would marry a long-haired, maggot infested, dope smoking liberal... ;o)