Moved to "The South" from what I then learned was "The North" about 22 years ago. After having been a Yankee all my life without knowing it or ever giving even half a shit about the Civil War or ever considering myself a Northerner, I found out upon moving to The South that I am indeed a Northerner and that I've always been bragging about my Civil War victory and how I'm always out to get The South. I tried in vain to convince some of the (mostly older) people that The North does not exist. It only exists in their own minds. That nobody calls themselves a Northerner or is out to get The South. I tried to explain that there are no Northern Pride parades or T-shirts exclaiming one's pride about being born in The North. I might as well have been arguing against the existence of gravity. To make it worse, the people down here are just a bit slower than the folks I grew up with. I've heard such ridiculous conspiracy theories about Northern companies refusing to expand to The South because they hate Southerners or that the US government is actively trying to shift the balance of wealth to the northeast because again, they hate Southerners. I just can't say this strongly enough. THE CIVIL WAR IS OVER. There isn't a single Yankee alive that gives a flying shit about it either. I could probably ask 100 8th graders in Ohio who Ulysses S. Grant was and I'll bet at least half wouldn't know. Down here they know who and what he was in detail and can recite it by the age of 2. Now I should say, now that the oldest generation when I came down here is dying off, things have improved greatly. The teenagers and 20 year olds will still tell you they're proud to be from the South, but it's no different than a Bostonian being proud of their town. There are definitely some hangers on, but they'll be gone to in 10 years or so I hope.