There are other sites than the BBC, revealing that at the top there was quite a bit of agreement with the American top brass, but at the grass roots, the British "needed to be educated about the ways of polite society". You might find the rules laid down by a vicar's wife, one Mrs May, and the reaction at the meeting where she gave them to the local women interesting.

Some make a distinction between white Americans from anywhere else but the Confederate states and the Southerners.

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