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The Civil War arose because Northerners feared that a small Southern "Slave Power" had seized control of Washington, while Southerners were convinced the North was determined to destroy their way of life.
Non-Southerners struck by our quaint (1369) speech may fail to recognize linguistic fossils when they hear them and likewise to appreciate their value as signs of the movement of peoples and the viability of speech through the centuries.
He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.
Like the Taliban leadership, most southerners are ethnic Pashtun Sunni Muslims who, though accounting for the majority of the Afghan population, had not fared well in the civil war.
Southerners who went up North were quickly made aware of curiosities of speech like I'm fixing to do something or go somewhere.