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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
... He didn't say anything incorrect. I'm not real sure why he should "read up on him."
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He said:
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Originally Posted by PGT_uga
just dont associate with them [Northerners].
it's what Robert E. Lee and co. did.
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That's incorrect. Lee did associate with them a great deal.
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Most southerners know waaay too much about him, and always have some sort of bloodline to him
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Actually, I would say most Southerners
think they know more about him then they actually do, although there are certainly the Southereners obsessed with him.
And I don't claim a bloodline to him (although my great-aunt did have a picture of him over the dresser that the Yankee soldiers let their horses feed from when they came through). My family was in Virginia before Lee's was.
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Southern fashion is influenced by the Gulf.
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Not in Virginia (or at least the parts of it that can still be called Southern), the Carolinas or much of Georgia.