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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    I always thought the Mason-Dixon line was an aid?

    In any regard I think this is a pretty cool reckoning back to a different time:



    "A "crownstone" boundary monument on the Mason-Dixon Line. These markers were originally placed at every 5th mile along the line, oriented with family coats of arms facing the state that they represented. The coat of arms of Maryland's founding Calvert family is shown. On the other side are the arms of William Penn." -Wikipedia
    [-[COLOR="DimGray"]Floreat Majestas[/COLOR]-|-[COLOR="Red"]Semper Vigilans[/COLOR]-|-[COLOR="Navy"]Aut Pax Aut Bellum[/COLOR]-|-[I][B]Go mbeannai Dia duit[/B][/I]-]
    [COLOR="DarkGreen"][SIZE="2"]"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."[/SIZE][/COLOR] [B]- John Calvin[/B]

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    Quote Originally Posted by Burly Brute View Post
    I always thought the Mason-Dixon line was an aid?

    In any regard I think this is a pretty cool reckoning back to a different time:



    "A "crownstone" boundary monument on the Mason-Dixon Line. These markers were originally placed at every 5th mile along the line, oriented with family coats of arms facing the state that they represented. The coat of arms of Maryland's founding Calvert family is shown. On the other side are the arms of William Penn." -Wikipedia
    And it really has nothing to do with the Civil War, or the boundary between North & South...it's simply the PA-MD border, which were fixed during the colonial era.

    Although the Bugs Bunny cartoon with Yosemite Sam as the rebel ("YANKEES!") was quite funny.

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    And it really has nothing to do with the Civil War, or the boundary between North & South...it's simply the PA-MD border, which were fixed during the colonial era.

    Although the Bugs Bunny cartoon with Yosemite Sam as the rebel ("YANKEES!") was quite funny.

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    Yea, but it looks like it could be a could place to start? Or...something.
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    [COLOR="DarkGreen"][SIZE="2"]"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."[/SIZE][/COLOR] [B]- John Calvin[/B]

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

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    Quote Originally Posted by Burly Brute View Post
    Yea, but it looks like it could be a could place to start? Or...something.
    Nah...only in popular culture. Boundary and land disputes were quite common in Colonial America, the most famous being Ethan Allen & his Green Mountain Boys versus the "Yorkers".

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
    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.

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    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.

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    Quote Originally Posted by ForresterModern View Post
    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.
    Even after 40 years in California my pronouncing "pig" with three syllables always makes it clear that I'm not from around here! (Something like "pee-uh-ig")

    Accent notwithstanding, my direct ancestors all fought for the North (7th West Virginia Cavalry). Only a pair of distant uncles were "mossbacks".
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    I know what you mean about accents. I was from Massachusetts but have lived in California for 30+ years now and I still "pahk my cah in Hahvahd yahd"
    proud U.S. Navy vet

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    Re: confederate and Union (Yankee) tartans

    Back in the 60s was a NROTC Midshipman at a dance at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi (they'd flown us down from Oregon to get us interested in brown shoes). They had a dance with local girls just like in "An Officer and a Gentleman."

    So I'm dancing with this local girl in her finest military ball dress and she looks up at me and says, "Bouy, y'awl nawthern bouys suuure dew hayave an axe scent."

    Woulda loved to have been kilted for that dance...but, who knew?
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