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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:#222222'>Aha! So your ancestors were traitors too! Although most Southerners now don't regard Kentucky and Virginia as 'South', they were and are. bill </span>w<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Not Virginia, West Virginia. Things were different over on the west side of the mountains. Kentucky never left the union.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>What I have learned in family history research is that the border states were among the most dangerous places during the early days of the war. In the deep south, nearly everyone went Confederate, so one was generally among allies in either the south or the north, but along the border, there were big problems with split families, neighbor against neighbor and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div></body></html>