As a Yankee in the south, I find that hilarious! :o)


>Did I say something wrong?
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>No, no, I'm just not being very clear. What I was intending to convey is that down these parts, there's folk with Confederate flags on their trucks expressing resentment about you (northern) Yankees and the civil war. Yep, one day y'all gonna get what's coming atcha. Grumbling by the Germans about the French rarely carries that level of resentment, though their war was a lot more recent. ;-)
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>It will be interesting to see what happens in the EU. Perhaps the US is a good model: under the United banner, each US State still retains a Governor/ civil service, sets taxes, passes local legislation and has legal jurisdiction inside its borders, right? Citizens of every State also take a deep interest in the Federal government, such as that shown in the various Primaries underway.