Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:24:04 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Country names (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020523162404.B88093@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <p05111722b910fa259976@[10.0.1.4]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:33:46AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205211257490.26365-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <p05111712b9107dce9658@[10.0.1.4]> <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <p0511171eb910959a28f6@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522114303.D26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB391E.C9C46A50@mindspring.com> <p05111722b910fa259976@[10.0.1.4]>
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:33:46AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 11:22 PM -0700 2002/05/21, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > Er, Mason-Dixon line.
>
> Which is a complete mis-nomer, because it is not a proper
> division between the states which were in the Union and the states
> which were in the Confederacy. Why do you think that West Virginia
> was formed?
And of course, Maryland, a Union state, is south of the Mason-Dixon
line, as is Washington D.C. itself.
Don't hold me to this, but the Mason-Dixon line orginally meant the
border between Pennsylvania and Maryland long before the War Between
the States. However, the Mason-Dixon line is associated with
North-South politics due to its use in the Missouri Compromise of 1820
which extended the Mason-Dixon west to serve as a boundary for the
free versus slave status future US territories. Land north of the
boundary would become free states and south would become slave.
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