Crip says:Ole Andy run my Cherokee ancestors to reservations, even after the supreme court ruled them free, his reply about the court, "lets see them uphold their decision." Almost all southerners from the south east have Cherokee relatives, they integrated into society, many had farms and were slave owners.
If you really want to conform, forget Walmart, hit yard sales and the flea-market, we accel in bargain huntin, we buy other people junk, true recycling.
BTW, for poorly equipped, non educated dirt farmers, the Confederates made a huge impact in the war and held out longer than ever expected. Proved that starving, low in numbers and arms, they would not fade away into oblivion, something has to be said about them. If you were being invaded by armed troops, would you grab your gun and defend whats yours, protecting property and family?
Watched a show about Alaska, you'd not believe those hard core settlers who journeyed up there when it was absolutely nothing, to make their future. Tough as nails, had to be, even the ones who went west, seems easy life has ruined people, don't know the meaning of sacrifice, or know what sacrifices were made to get us here.
