LOL! I'm enjoying the thread immensely. Not for the Civil War-like qualities of the debate - simply for the wealth of viewpoints to be taken in. I'm off to bookshops soon and all of this will be rolling around in my head. I have to admit to a sneaky liking - based on no logical thinking whatsoever - for the Confederacy. Robbie Robertson quoted Levon Helm's father,at dinner, as saying with all seriousness, "The South will rise again". When I mentioned that recently in conversation with Duck Baker, he grimaced and said, "I've lost count of the times I've heard that said". DB's from West Virginia - and now lives in England.
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