Here's how I learned it as a kid.
First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand,
Then came Alabama and took her by the hand;
Next, quickly, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida,
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Ye men of valor gather round the banner of the right
Texas and fair Louisiana join us in the fight
Davis, for a President, and Stephens statesmen rare
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Now here's to brave Virginia, the Old Dominion State,
With the young Confederacy at last has sealed her fate,
And spurred by her example, now other states prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
(Alternately:
Now here's to Virginia, the Old Dominion State,
Who with the young Confederacy at length has linked her fate.
Impelled by her example, let other states prepare
To hoist high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.)
Then cheer, boys, cheer, raise a joyous shout
For North Carolina and Arkansas now have both gone out,
And let another rousing cheer for Tennessee be given,
For the single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be eleven.
That's how we learned the order of secession. Rather that's the exact order I'm not sure anymore. Fourth grade was a long time ago.
My wife, a "yankee girl" from the Milwaukee/Chicago area, lived in Louisiana for a couple of years. She said the locals down there always bragged about being south of the Mason/Dixon line. When asked where the Mason/Dixon line was, she was told, they didn't know, they just knew they were south of it. She was actually pretty shocked to find out where it is. She was also shocked to find out "Bubba" is not necessarly an insult.
But where is the south? Anywhere south of 90 deg North, I suppose. When I went up nawth to meet her people, I saw "the south" all through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and southern Illinois. I was as surprised as she was when she got to Louisiana. I had no idea the south went so far north.
