[Redgirl]

Forgot to add that Yankees didn't know what a pretty woman looked like until they went South. Ask anyone.

[Gunrunner2]

That is true even today (*ducking and running* you know how those Yankee women can be!)

[muawiyah]

Well, that could be ~ they'd been out there in the swamps and woods for quite some time, and their Northern ladies (unlike their Southern cousins) were ploughing the fields themselves.