Your comment about "the War Between the States" rings absolutely true.

Did you hear it called "the War of Northern Aggression" also? I'm told some people still use that too. And in certain parts of Mississippi, they call it just the "wo-ah," because: What other war was there?

I wonder what your old friends would think of the comedian Colin Quinn's joke about North Carolina and its tobacco: "North Carolina is 'the nation's ashtray' " :).