"Slowly but surely they have taken over Hilton Head, they've taken over Beaufort County. They're infiltrating Jasper County...they're worse than fire ants."After discussing a case in property today regarding negative deed restrictions that prohibited the sale of property to Negroes and Mongolians (why Mongolians were mentioned I have no idea - guess I forgot about that huge influx of Asian immigrants in St. Louis in the 1910's), our professor presented us with an interesting story.
-Henry Ingram
A dude in South Carolina (Henry Ingram), owner of the Delta Plantation just north of Savannah GA, has certain restrictive covenants preventing the sale or lease of his property to people of the "Yankee race."
These prohibitions include:Thankfully, ol' Henry has lightened up a bit in his old age. Now, the modified covenant allows a Yankee to purchase the land, only on the condition that he recite a Southern Oath, promising that "when speaking of Yankees, I will refer to them as scalawags or carpetbaggers." Furthermore, these proselytized folks must "whistle or hum Dixie as a sign of [their] loyalty and as a token of [their] new outlook on life."
1. Anyone from north of the Mason Dixon line (or who have lived above the line for over a year)
2. Anyone with the last name of Sherman, or whose last name can be rearranged to spell Sherman
3. No redwood can be used on the property (evidently there are certain types of redwood named after General Sherman)
Ahhh...just another fine day in South Carolina property law land.
Northerners are a people lost to all shame . . . cowards by nature, thieves upon principle, and assassins at heart. . . . The tiger that laps the blood and the beetle that gorges excrement, are but Yankees of the animal kingdom . . . our feelings towards [these] scarabi and vipers of humanity should be characterized neither by rage nor nausea, but by a fixed cheerful Christian determination to . . . curb their inordinate and bloody lusts by such adequate means as natural with suggests; and, as a general thing, to kill them without idle question as to whether they are reptiles or vermin. - John Daniel, Richmond Enquirer, 1863
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Things are different up here. It's a bunch of people that think they are Southern. Virginia may have been part of the historic South, but it ain't part of the modern South. Need proof? See if you can get sweet tea at more than a handful of restaurants. Or, turn on The Fox Classic Rock radio station up here and you won't hear Johnboy and Billy in the morning or much Southern Rock. My heart goes out to the remnant of the South that maintains residence in Virginia. They must feel the same way Zell Miller does in the modern Democratic party--an Old South conservative amongst statism.
Gasoline works on fire ants, do you think it will work in Bluffton?
You've broken this Yankee girl's heart. (though I don't actually consider myself a "Yankee" as, being from Boston, that would be akin to calling myself one of any number of less polite swear words you can think of. YANKEES SUCK!)
~Abby~
man, i was at dook u. the other day, and overheard a dook person say: "among the people i work with here, i'm the most southern, and i'm from indiana." she knew that wasn't right.
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