Skinkers:  I was born and raised in Rochester, NY.  During the Civil War it was a bastion of abolitionist sentiment and the city raised several regiments for the Union.  Frederic Douglass lived in Rochester for 20 years and is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, same place all my folks are buried.  I never had much sympathy for the Lost Cause until we withdrew from Vietnam and I experienced my own lost cause syndrome.  Now I've lived here for more than 30 years, spent a lot of time in rural Virginia with people whose families have lived here for generations, rednecks, you might call 'em, and I now consider myself a citizen of the Old Dominion.  I sometimes think of people from NY and PA as carpetbaggers.

Now Maryland did not withdraw from the Union but only because Lincoln sent Federal troops into the state to arrest the legislature, but she was going for the Confederacy before that and throughout the war Maryland was full of pro-Confederate sympathizers.  John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland after the Lincoln assassination.  Today you see Confederate battle flags all over down there.