byb: but I don't consider anything west of the Mississippi river to be part of the South.... Do you 'Bamians and other real Southerners agree with this? WO'N: the Texans who fought through Devil's Den and charged up Little Round Top at Gettysburg might take some dispute with that.

Very interesting. I'd have taken your view, byb -- but upon trying to confirm your view with a LIU, I found that Texas was part of the Confederacy (the "South") during our Civil War -- which I'd not recalled.

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