Re: Bill of No Rights
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:14:18 -0800 (PST)
>The 3 generals are lit up with
>lasers, and a map of the US is superimposed over them, and then
Stonewall
>Jackson takes his sword and slices the country in half, and they play
Dixie.
Yikes! A bit excessive, isn't it? Of course, it's Georgia...
It seems to have changed a bit since I was there...I never saw
that bit about cutting the country in half. I think I would fear
for my soul. I've grown up most of my life here in Virginia--but
we call it Northern Virginia, and indeed it is a very different
state than the rest of Virginia. Most people here work in D.C.,
which is a 20-minute-drive, and I think the vast majority of us
Northern Virginians count ourselves among the Yankees...
Of course, I'm also about fifteen minutes away from Manassas,
which is NOT counted as Northern Virginia, where people fly
Confederate flags from their pick-ups and tout bumper stickers
that read "The South Will Rise Again." Manassas, in case you
don't know it, is perhaps best known for being the home of the
Bobbits...although serious history buffs may or may not remember
a couple of Civil War battles being fought there...
On the way to my sister's house in Florida, I've been twice through
Georgia in the last year, and was astounded by the squalor. That
was about the only impression I got, though. Sorry, all you
Southerners and Flannery O'Conner enthusiasts, but I just can't seem
to find the romance in the South. It seems a horrid place to me.
I'd better slow down before I get lynched...
Brendan
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