OT: Suthran ** Day late and a dollar short, but...

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Hey Sherlene,

 

> 63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

 

Sho'nuf is .. considering that the test was a bit loaded. ;-)

 

> I'm from around Houston, TX, was born in Conroe, Tx, never have lived

> any place else. On my daddy's side, my ancestor, Aaron Cherry, Sr. was

> the 1st permanent white settlement in the state of Texas in 1819. (No,

> Stephen F. Austin wasn't the 1st!) My mother's people are from Mississippi.

 

Folks can't get no more Suthran than Mis'sippi .. and no more Texican

than you are.

 

> However, I have had years of voice lessons (started signing in public at

> age 3) and they darn-near stripped the drawl right out of me!

 

That's probably what you think .. but probably not so. I go back home

and folks say I done started tawking Yankee .. I go away from home and

folks immediately know I'm from the South .. and I've not lived in the

USA for sixteen years now. Fact is, except for writing on this list and

replying to folks off list .. I rarely use English. And writing does

nothing to maintain or cause loss of an accent. ;-)

 

> I really am 100% Suthern. And, I AM kin to Robert E. Lee, that's my

> mamma's maiden name!

 

Good show .. good stock .. and congratulations. Being kin to Robert E.

Lee also makes you kin to Martha Washington and .. Robert E. Lee is from

a line of Scottish nobility .. to include kings .. not all bad methinks

http://www.civilwarhome.com/leeancestors.htm

 

Lee's biography http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm begins with a

letter to his sister .. explaining his decision why he can not stay in

the Army of the United States of America.

 

More important is the fact that Robert E. Lee was anti-slavery .. and he

stated, in 1856, " There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who

will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and

political evil. " http://www.civilwarhome.com/leepierce.htm contains

Lee's feelings about slavery.

 

But Jefferson Davis .. President of the Confederacy .. whose monument,

similar too but a bit shorter than the Washington Monument, is in my

home county of Todd County, KY .. was also anti-slavery. Contrary to a

lot of twisted history the War of Secession was NOT about slavery .. no

question it was an issue that needed to be resolved .. but it was NOT

the cause of the war nor did patriotic and gallant Suthran folks flock

to join the Confederate Army to protect that institution.

 

> As my ol' buddy says, " Ya'll keep smilin'! "

> Sherlene

 

Right you are on that one. :-) Butch