Sat, Nov 20, 1943: the South

"Most of the boys here are from the South.  This is really the University of the 'South'.  The word 'Yankee' is used with a feeling of disgust here.  My English professor refights the Civil War in every class.  The other day he told us that ‘a Nazi is a Yankee carried to his logical conclusion.'  He said the South was their only hope.  To him a Yankee is a sort of heathen.  The South has all the culture and finer things."
-- Letter from Lee Lenz, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., to my father, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Saturday, November 20, 1943.  Lee was my father’s neighbor and high school class mate.  He was in the Navy V-12 program, as my father was.