Is the south over getting their butts kicked in the civil war? Why do they call northerners yankees still?

Answer 1

It doesn't mean what it once did, it just means a geographical separation to me. I was born in the South, and raised by racists. When I became an adult, I was able to make my own decisions and choices, I found that people are people. No difference, when you really take the time to get to know them. Sure there are perhaps some cultural differences, but nothing that I thought was a justification for harboring fear and hatred of people of different heritages. I became a happier person when I began to embrace the differences of the cultures rather than close my mind. When your Great Grandfather was in the KKK that's a leap! My family the few that survive still cling to their old beliefs. I am not even considered a member of their family anymore.

I joined a different family, the family of humanity. I even married a yankee! I recently was taken aback to hear my husband's father who is also a yankee express a prejudice against a bi-racial couple that my husband and I are good friend with! I have to say, I was rather disappointed to hear that kind of bias coming from a person who always had seemed to be so neutral on racial issues. He is still my father in-law, but I think his revelation even took my husband by surprise, we have bi-racial children in my husbands close family, so I don't think Yankee means "more tolerant", I just think it refers to a geographic difference (above the Mason Dixon Line). Take my word for it, I am so glad that the North won the Civil war, I think trying to enslave any person or a particular kind of person is so wrong!

Answer 2

First the Yankees didn't kick our butt! The South was trying not to destroy the North, we were gentlemen. The Confederate soldiers drove the Yankees back past the Mason Dixon line twice and hostilities stopped for short periods.
Contrary to popular opinion the War was over the fact that Yankees owned the RR and charged exorbitant prices for moving southern farm goods. The same Yankees also owned the freight companies that transported the farm goods away from the RR docks.
When southern farmers wouldn't take very little money for their farm goods sold off the RR docks, the freight companies raped the farmers with transport charges. This took all the profit away from the farmers and caused tons of unrest and violence. The Yankee tycoons forced the government to take action and this led to secession.
The north was beaten until they blockaded the southern ports with iron clad ships the southerns pushed into being built. They were still driven back out of the south, and Lincoln then did the emancipation act.
This allowed blacks to do the logistics work and freed up white soldiers to fight. Eventually blacks made it into the ranks, after being promise land, which the government reneged upon.
After 3 1/2 years of war the north finally managed to fight their way back into south and barely get a victory, if you can call that many casualties a victory. I don't think that many killed can be called kicking our butt.
If a war with that many killed was fought today, no one would say they kicked anyones butt. Miltary commanders and government officials would called into account for such a blunder. The repercussions would be wide spread for a long time.
The weapons were crude at best, the casualties were extremely high, and the economic toll was horredous. This doesn't speak to any way, shape, or form of kicking butt. It does however speak to just how bad and how much the Yankees angered the southerns.
I would have call it stupidity! All that bloodshed, and devistation over money that the farmers worked so for, and were cheated out of by Yankee robber barrons is disgraceful at it's best. Then there are all the dumb a$$ Yankees that took up arms to fight for robber barrons cheating profits.
Now you Yankees have poisoned your homes, land, and air and then moved to the south. And you wonder why southerners feel the way they do? We southern's think you're dumber than dirt, the proof is the poisoned great white north, and your flight to the south where you're not wanted nor liked.

Answer 3

Personally, I don't think so. I grew up in the south and they were very bitter just 10 years ago. But, I think that they might have a good reason to be. After the Civil War, the south went into a very deep recession. It really hasn't ever gotten out. The south for the most part is still very poor and the education offered is very bad. For southerners to "get over it," the country has to show that it cares about the south and help it out a little to get back on its feet.

Answer 4

If you haven't noticed, if state's rights were allowed to exist today, we wouldn't have as much division in the US. It really wasn't a civil war, because the south did not want to control the government of the north. They wanted to be left alone with state's rights intact. You complain about the government impossing their will on everybody else and this is a prime example.

Answer 5

English people call Americans yankees...but as a southerner, I do see your point. its these dad gum small towners with their stupid narrow minded "think they're better than everybody" attitude...good grief, if you're from a town of more than 50, 000 in the south, you might as well be a northerner too! at least thats been my experience! anyways, anyone who ACTUALLY thinks the south will rise again...is a dork. But seriously...Don't mess with Texas... yeehaw yall

Answer 6

Obviously not, they still have confederate bumper stickers and lunchboxes, so they can be racists on the go.