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Old 01-08-2010, 03:39 PM
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SD Chicago column on Macy's

In "Why are people still so upset about Marshall Field's?
January 7, 2010"
(http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20100107.php), Cecil stated:
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On the other hand, some southerners have never accepted that the Civil War's over and they lost.
Well, not quite. Some southerners don't accept that they lost that war, but they call it "the war of northern aggression."
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