To quote the famous author William Faulkner, late of MS:
"In the Southland, the past is not 'gone with the wind'. In fact it's not even past."
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"We Southerners have long memories of the hideous evils done to our families during & after the late war. We will neither forgive nor forget, for many generations, how our ancestors were murdered, robbed, raped & mistreated by the hated damnyankees, for the sin of fighting for the freedom to have our own Southern nation."