confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

**Tobus** · 17th January 12, 03:30 PM

"Yankees live in New England, not the Midwest", my grandmother would say.

My grandfather used to say that anyone north of I-10 is a yankee (that side of the family is from Mobile, AL). It's all in the individual perspective.

**macwilkin** · 17th January 12, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Tobus

My grandfather used to say that anyone north of I-10 is a yankee (that side of the family is from Mobile, AL). It's all in the individual perspective.

My MIL says the same thing about anyone north of Baton Rouge, but in the Midwest, we are Mudsills, not Yankees...and it was a Southerner from South Carolina who called us that back in the 1850s.

T.

**Taygrd** · 20th January 12, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Tobus

My grandfather used to say that anyone north of I-10 is a yankee (that side of the family is from Mobile, AL). It's all in the individual perspective.

Mine said it was anyone north of the Guadalupe River.

**Detroitpete** · 17th January 12, 03:43 PM

Here's one for both

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar...aspx?ref=10127

**Zardoz** · 17th January 12, 04:14 PM

I've had the Confederate Memorial tartan on my wish list for a while, I kind of forget about it, and then a thread like this pops up

**Burly Brute** · 17th January 12, 04:34 PM

I hear tell that the south will rise again.

**Detroitpete** · 17th January 12, 05:12 PM

Despite the fact that just a generation ago, my father's family came from West Virginia, anything south of mid-Ohio is 'southern' for me.

**Riverkilt** · 17th January 12, 06:23 PM

I love that poem - never knew where it came from though - thanks!

Living in the south with a Montana accent I was often called a Yankee. I'd just ask where they were born and 90 % of the time it was north of where I was born - on the south bank of the Alabama River across from Selma.

Back to the tartans I'd like to see the tartan swatch in person for the Federal tartan...we're getting different pics on different websites.

**warrior** · 20th January 12, 09:59 AM

Not to stir the pot but this natural son of The Heart of Dixie shall always be like those of my forefathers. Not a

**ForresterModern** · 20th January 12, 07:28 PM

Borderer family in Scotland, border family during the War, tucked away in the newly minted West Virginia hills, I cannot find any reference of my paternal line's involvement in the War, although being just a ridge or two west of the Shenandoah suggests some involvement.
Where I come from, anybody who pronounces the word beginning with s (synonym for manure) as only a single syllable word was considered a Yankee. A true southerner can make it three syllables with ease.