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Northerners are used to disappointment, but have we really been abandoned again in favour of the apparently easier growth hits available in the South?

She adds, “I’m anticommunist, but I don’t hate the Northerners. We are all Vietnamese; we are all brothers and sisters from the same country. It’s the politics that destroyed us, the war.”

"We're Northerners. We want to see the economy thrive in the North," he said.

These incidents almost invariably pitted Northerners and Southerners against one another, with slavery the principal source of disagreement.

"The Northerners and the Westerners put cool whip on their Jell-O," she mocked, "and the Southerners put cottage cheese."