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Nov. 23rd, 2004 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalFrom Salon.com's Letters page: "David Talbot's article says John Wilkes Booth was from Maryland. Well, then he was a Yankee, not a Southerner."
Uh, yeah. I mean, Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon line, happily kept it's slaves by agreeing not to seceed (until one of the early versions of the Emancipation Proclamation came out), staged riots in Baltimore every time a Union troop train passed through until the place was under martial law, and willingly practiced segregation until the Civil Rights act was passed in the 1960's.
On the flipside we aren't exactly a Deep Red state either. We've got Erlich for a governor but he's by no means a neo-con, Barbara Mikulski was the voice of sanity in Republican politics until higher ups decided to kick her out, and we went for Kerry in the election.
But "Not Southern"? I resent that, Yankee!
Uh, yeah. I mean, Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon line, happily kept it's slaves by agreeing not to seceed (until one of the early versions of the Emancipation Proclamation came out), staged riots in Baltimore every time a Union troop train passed through until the place was under martial law, and willingly practiced segregation until the Civil Rights act was passed in the 1960's.
On the flipside we aren't exactly a Deep Red state either. We've got Erlich for a governor but he's by no means a neo-con, Barbara Mikulski was the voice of sanity in Republican politics until higher ups decided to kick her out, and we went for Kerry in the election.
But "Not Southern"? I resent that, Yankee!
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Date: 2004-11-23 07:33 pm (UTC)