Lots of the Southerners here go on and on about how they are so different from "Yankees". I'd tell 'em this; go visit rural folks all over the North, and then tell me how different these Yankees are from themselves.
Those aren't Yankees. Yankees are and are the descendants of New England Congregationalists and they almost hailed from the east of England. The same groups fought a Civil War in England as well.
You should read a book or two. I recommend "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America" for starters. Another good would be "The Cousin's Wars".
Nope, we are a different people.
So
New England Congregationalists were a majority of the population in the North in '61???
They answered Lincoln's call and did a majority of the fighting?
LINCOLN was a New England Congregationalist?
A while back I asked you why the South couldn't imagine themselves without slavery......
(I mean if our Constitution defines who we are, they wrote theirs ABOUT slavery).
You answered in effect "No, that weren't it, they had a different interpretation of what government was supposed to do and they opposed mercantilism."
Why didn't THEY say that?
Birdwatcher
