you know, I had *never* heard it called The War of Northern Aggression in earnest by anyone until I moved out here to Virginia--and even now, it's been people telling me "they always call it the War of Northern Aggression." I've still never heard anyone actually call it that.
Which is not to invalidate any of these points; I'm just genuinely baffled, because now I'm wondering, in light of my quibbles when I read Beautiful Creatures with the extent of the culture earmarks in that book (set in GA) that I both recognized and didn't recognize, if my experience growing up in rural Tennessee was completely different from the experience of someone who grew up in deeper parts of the South, just by virtue of the different casts that the stain of slavery left in both areas.
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you know, I had *never* heard it called The War of Northern Aggression in earnest by anyone until I moved out here to Virginia--and even now, it's been people telling me "they always call it the War of Northern Aggression." I've still never heard anyone actually call it that.
Which is not to invalidate any of these points; I'm just genuinely baffled, because now I'm wondering, in light of my quibbles when I read Beautiful Creatures with the extent of the culture earmarks in that book (set in GA) that I both recognized and didn't recognize, if my experience growing up in rural Tennessee was completely different from the experience of someone who grew up in deeper parts of the South, just by virtue of the different casts that the stain of slavery left in both areas.
Huh.
In any case, thank you for the link.