RE: [DL] I wish I was in Dixie (Chris McG.)

["Matthew M. DeForrest" <mmdeforrest@worldnet.att.net>]

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>What does it take to be a real Southerner, anyway? Is
>htere some kind of Freemason-esque initiation ritual,
>or can I just claim to be a Southerner?
>
I was born in Maryland; is that enough to make me a Southerner?
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Well, Maryland's northern border is Mason-Dixon line and only Lincoln's
ignoring the Constitution (He suspended Habeas Corpus and locked up the
Governor and several secessionist legislators) and a high concentration of
Federal troops kept it from seceding at the start of the Civil War.  If that
isn't enough, I don't know what is.

Matt DeForrest