“A meddling Yankee is God’s worst creation; he cannot run his own affairs correctly, but is constantly interfering in the affairs of others, and he is always ready to repent of everyone’s sins, but his own.”
attributed to North Carolina newspaper, 1854
Any doubts we live under the penultimate Yankee government?
Sounds like my Tarheel General DH Hill.
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"A meddling Yankee troubles himself with everybody's matters but his own and repents of everybody's sins except his own."
We Are A Different People
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/01/we-are-different-people.html