confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

**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.

**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.

**macwilkin** · 17th January 12, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by Kilted in Maine

NO! Yankees live in New York - New England is Red Sox Country!

LOL

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

-- attributed to E.B. White

**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.

**Bob C** · 17th January 12, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

-- attributed to E.B. White

Beat me to it.

**Tartan Hiker** · 17th January 12, 09:18 PM

I, too, upon arriving in south Louisiana was called a yankee, despite being born and bred in North Carolina.

**SlackerDrummer** · 18th January 12, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker

I, too, upon arriving in south Louisiana was called a yankee, despite being born and bred in North Carolina.

When I was in Montreat one summer as a kid, there was this guy from Alabama there with his church. He told me I had to be a Yankee cause I was from North Carolina.