Reply #18: I wasn't raised in the South, but my family is from there [View All]

[Coventina]

My great-great Grandfather owned a large plantation, fought in the "War Of Northern Aggression", etc.

So, as an ignorant child and teenager, I believed that it was my family duty to have Confederate sympathies. Although, I will say, that my parents NEVER fed me any kind of racial or ethnic bigotry.

I grew up fast, though, when I watched the movie "The Long Walk Home" as a young adult. I have NEVER had any sympathy for "The South" or any kind of ethnic hatred since watching that movie.