why do Southerners have animosity towards Northerners.?

Answer 1

My husband says because they don't have the charm and chrivalry. Those live down south are more passive.
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Now my opinion based on history. Slavery was condoned by the Constitution and many have been told that slavery was the reason for the war; I also have been told it was preservation of the union.

In looking at it, not being influenced by school texts, it is because of social and economic differences. The North wanting to push their social values on a different sort of society. Look at

"Confederate Connections:
The American Revolution and American Life
by Clyde Wilson

A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth, was visiting professor at a very prestigious Northern university a few years ago. In idle conversation with some colleagues, he happened to mention that his mother was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

His colleagues were shocked with disbelief. Their families had come from remote parts of Europe long after the War for Southern Independence. Their understanding of American history went like this: America had been founded by noble, freedom and equality loving patriots, And then that noble founding had been saved by other great patriots against a wicked rebellion of traitors seeking only to preserve the un-American institution of slavery. How could one celebrate both the founding and the treason?

Of course, these distinguished professors’ view of American history is absurd. But it illustrates the dilemma that Southerners face when they try to give correct accounts of their history. The wrong view has been taught as gospel truth for generations. It has been taught to generations of later immigrants who regard it as the true story of America. It promotes the self-esteem of Northerners. Many Northerners (not all) have no felt historical connection with America, which they regard in abstract terms as "a proposition nation." They literally do not know what Southerners are talking about when they defend their heritage, the real experience of their own families, because they do not know what a real heritage is.

The false view of history is a very powerful tool in its emotional appeal to centralized government, to unthinking nationalist fervor, and to the eternal mission for correcting the world that motivates leftists. It is the same type of mentality that thinks bombing women and children in the Balkans is OK because it is done in the name of theories of "human rights" and "democracy."

You know your Confederate ancestors were not fighting for slavery. But the people you are arguing with have no ancestors. Their minds deal in abstractions, not lived human experience. They know what has been promulgated as the national mythology – that Lincoln saved government of, by, and for the people and the ideal that "all men are created equal."

So, our Confederate forebears, who were in both blood and principle literally sons of the American Revolution, go down as traitors, while those who destroyed the work of the Founders and reconstructed America on a new centralized basis, are considered its saviors!

As a small contribution to correcting historical views, I have compiled, from ordinary reference sources, an account of the kinship relations of Confederates to the patriots of the Revolution (and to other important figures in the founding and early development of the U.S.) The connection of the Confederate effort for independence with the principles of self-government of peoples expounded by the American Revolution has been well-defended and is (or rather ought to be) obvious. I want to show the actual connection of families. It is true that descendants sometimes lose or mistake the principles of their sires, but that is not the case in the three score and eleven years from the founding of the US to the founding of the C.S.A. Do we really believe that the leaders of the North, few of whom had an significant family connection to the founding patriots, better represent the American Revolution?

(After the discussion of how Confederates relate to the Revolutionary War, I have added sections describing the Confederate contributions to settling the West and to democratic, popular movements after the War, and a section on minority group Confederates.)

Confederate Connections to the American Revolution and the Early History of the US
CSA President Jefferson Davis was the son of a soldier in the American Revolution.

Vice President Alexander H. Stephens was the grandson of a soldier in the Revolution.

Gen. R.E. Lee was the son of a cavalry general in the Revolution and the nephew of two signers of the Declaration of Independence. His wife was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington.

Samuel Cooper, Jr., ranking general of the CSA, was the son of a Revolutionary officer from Massachusetts. He was born in New Jersey and appointed to West Point from New York. His wife was the granddaughter of the Virginia Revolutionary statesman George Mason. Her brother was the Confederate minister to Great Britain, James M. Mason

William Henry Chase, who commanded the Florida state forces in the early days of the Confederacy, was a native of Maine and was the great-nephew of John Hancock, famous signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.

Brig. General Hylan B. Lyon, CSA, was born in Kentucky, but his grandfather, Matthew Lyon, was a congressman from Vermont who was one of the few strong supporters of Jefferson in New England and was famous for having been prosecuted under the Sedition Act.

Brig. Gen. and Secretary of War George W. Randolph was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson.

Brig. Gen. James E. Slaughter was the grand-nephew of James Madison.

Maj. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson was the nephew of Andrew Jackson.

Brig. Lucius M. Walker was the nephew of President James K. Polk.

Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor, CSA, was the son of General and President Zachary Taylor and the grandson of a Revolutionary officer.

Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk’s father was a Revolutionary colonel as was his maternal grandfather.

Maj. Gen. Matthew C. Butler was the nephew, on his mother’s side, of the great Connecticut naval heroes, Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew Calbraith Perry. Butler’s wife was the great-granddaughter of the Revolutionary Gen. Andrew Pickens.

A number of the early heroes of the US Navy were Southerners like Stephen Decatur. Most of the rest of the outstanding Naval officers were from the Middle States and almost none from New England, though New England was supposedly the most seafaring part of the Union. The US Marine Corps from its beginning to the War was mostly led and manned by Southerners. After his experience before the mast, Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, contrasted Southern navy officers very favorably with others for their decency and fairness to lower ranks.

Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs was the son of Gen. John Twiggs of the Revolution.

Brig. Gen. Hugh W. Mercer was the grandson of Revolutionary Gen. Hugh Mercer.

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CSA, was the son of a Revolutionary army colonel.

Maj. Gen. Benjamin Huger’s grandfather was a Revolutionary officer and a friend of Lafayette.

Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton was descended from one of the prominent first settlers of Pennsylvania.

Brig. William Nelson Pendleton’s forebears included Thomas Nelson, Revolutionary governor of Virginia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Virginia patriot Edmund Pendleton.

At least two grandsons and many other relatives of Patrick Henry served in the Confederate army.

President John Tyler was a member of the Confederate Congress and his son Robert was Treasurer of the Confederate States.

Lt. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, CSA, was a grandson of a Revolutionary officer.

Lt. Gen. D.H. Hill was grandson of a Revolutionary officer.

Lewis A. Washington, a grandnephew of George Washington, was one of the people slaughtered by John Brown on his raid on Harpers Ferry. (Brown stole a sword of George Washington’s which he regarded as a talisman.)

The father of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, CSA, was a distinguished War of 1812 officer from Connecticut, and his brother, a colonel, was killed in action in the Mexican War.

Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw was the grandson of a Revolutionary officer.

Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton’s grandfather was a Colonel in the Revolution and a general in the War of 1812.

Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall was grandson of the first US Senator from Kentucky.

Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, besides being Vice-President of the US, had a grandfather who was an early Senator from Kentucky and a member of Jefferson’s cabinet.

Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby’s grandfather was an officer in the Revolution.

The father of Brig. Gen. William Carroll, CSA, was a general in the War of 1812.

Brig Gen. Henry A. Wise was the son-in-law of John Sergeant, distinguished Pennsylvania political leader and candidate for Vice-president of the U..S

Brig. Gen. William Preston CSA was the grandson of two Revolutionary officers.

Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, CSA, was the grandson of a Revolutionary officer.

John P. Maclay, Gen. of Louisiana state forces in the Confederacy, came from a family who were the leading Jeffersonians in western Pennsylvania including an important Senator.

Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead had a father and four uncles who fought in the War of 1812.

Robert W. Johnson, member of the Confederate Congress from Arkansas, was the nephew of Richard M. Johnson, Vice-president of the US

The father of Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Drayton was born in St. Augustine, where his family had been exiled because of Revolutionary activities.

Revolutionary War Gen. William Henry’s son, Gustavus, was a member of the Confederate Congress from Kentucky and his grandson a Confederate colonel.

William R. Caswell, Confederate officer from Tennessee, was the grandson of North Carolina Revolutionary War general and governor Richard Caswell.

The great American painter James McNeill Whistler, though born in Massachusetts, was a Confederate sympathizer, which partly explains why he spent his life in Europe, according to a recent biography. His brother was a Confederate surgeon.

The words to the US national anthem were written by Francis Scott Key, as is well known. Less well-known is that his grandson, Francis Key Howard, was one of the Marylanders imprisoned by Lincoln for Southern sympathies. Howard was also the grandson of Col. John Eager Howard, commander of the famous Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War. Another Francis Scott Key grandson was Richard Hammond Key, Confederate soldier who died in a Yankee prison camp.

This is just to scratch the surface. This list of Confederate family connections to the American Revolution and to the early development of America could be expanded for many pages. This is not even to touch on the political and military leaders of the Confederacy who were themselves or whose close relatives were leaders in the 19th century prior to the War:

Senators, Congressmen, cabinet members, jurists, diplomats, soldiers, educators, clergy and many others"
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On the deepest level, meaning is not created by what happens to us, but by how we respond to it.

I am a Civil War buff. Actually the "late great national unpleasantness" has four names. If you are from Massachusetts you might know it as "the great rebellion." In Pennsylvania we call it "the civil war." In Virginia it is usually "the war between the states" and in Mississippi some know it as "the war of Northern aggression." That is, the war not only caused divisions, but there were differing nuances on what those divisions were really all about, and on how one should perceive the people on the other side. Nevertheless, each side was fully confident of its righteousness. Brian Pohanka of Virginia, in a recent book on the that war, writes:

Most Northerners fought to preserve the Union, and most Southerners fought to preserve the political integrity of their respective states. Both sides fought to maintain what they saw as the most fundamental ideals of the nation’s founding Fathers. The volunteers who marched to war in the spring of 1861 were utterly convinced of the righteousness of their cause . . . .


The North wiped out their culture how would you feel ? However hindsight is always more effective than foresight.

Answer 2

With regards to the animosity factor, consider that the Southern states lost a way of life they lost their free labor pool they lost their economy, they lost their future with the deaths of so many young men during the American Civil War

Answer 3

They are embarrassed because they invented New Orleans and can't get rid of it..

Answer 4

because we spanked them in the Civil War.

We don't say "ma'am" and "sir"

We assume that intelligent people can't speak with a drawl.

Answer 5

Have you ever been to New Orleans?

Answer 6

because we cook better,lol.j/k,