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Mississippi Flag, a Rebel Holdout, Is in a New Fight
The New York Times ^ | November 7, 2915 | CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Posted on 11/08/2015 9:36:32 AM PST by yoe

LOUISVILLE, Miss. — In single strokes after the massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston in June, Confederate battle flags were taken from statehouse grounds in South Carolina and Alabama, pulled from shelves at major retailers like Walmart and declared unwelcome, if to (limited effect), at Nascar races.

What happened so swiftly elsewhere is not so simple in Mississippi. The Confederate battle flag is not simply flying in one hotly disputed spot at the State Capitol but occupying the upper left corner of the state flag, which has been flying since 1894. (And as recently as 2001), Mississippians voted by a nearly two-to-one ratio to keep it. Recent ( polling) suggests the majority have not changed their minds.

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To: jeffersondem
Can you tell this board, in your own words, why you hate George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?

Right after you share with the board why you hate America so much.

221 posted on 11/14/2015 9:27:50 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: jeffersondem
rockrr - Welcome back to the board. I have missed you. I've been looking forward to you telling me more about your understanding of “domestic insurrections”, post #152.

Go back and re-read the post if you didn't understand it the first time.

You speak in some detail about General Lee and slaves; do you know if General Grant's family owned slaves?

Yes.

222 posted on 11/14/2015 9:29:54 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

“Yes.”

Thank you. Now can you tell us, in your own words, how you feel about “slavers”?


223 posted on 11/14/2015 9:36:02 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

Say please.


224 posted on 11/14/2015 9:42:15 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr
“Right after you share with the board why you hate America so much.”

You have misunderstood and imagined more. That said, I do not applaud Lincoln's decision to start an unnecessary war that killed 600,000 people. The peculiar institution should have been ended through a constitutional amendment without the war costing 600,000 dead.

225 posted on 11/14/2015 9:47:32 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: catfish1957
Not at all Poindexter You don't have to come out and say you;’re sorry the South lost. You inferences in every post and yur complete identification with the CSA flag over the Stars And Stripes tells me where your allegiance lies. You've never once gave any pride in being an America, it's a Southerner you seem most proud to be. Where's the lie in that?
226 posted on 11/14/2015 11:27:21 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: jeffersondem
That said, I do not applaud Lincoln's decision to start an unnecessary war that killed 600,000 people. The peculiar institution should have been ended through a constitutional amendment without the war costing 600,000 dead.

Why do you Confederate supporters persist in blaming others for the consequences of the South's own bad decisions?

227 posted on 11/14/2015 11:32:22 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: catfish1957

No I’m not a libertarian, I’m a conservative. No less a conservative that William F. Buckley and George Shultz at various times argued the same point. tell smart ass, how successful has the War On drugs been?f If Prohibition were a success in the 1930s why was it repealed? You go f**k yourself . Your ancestors were the slime who took up arms against the United States. Mine fought to preserve it. Your side lost a war it started. Get over it and stop acting like a petulant child because that’s what you come off sounding like. Try growing up and facing the fact.


228 posted on 11/14/2015 11:33:08 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: jeffersondem

I don’t hate either man. Are you still living in your parents basement?


229 posted on 11/14/2015 11:34:41 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: jmacusa

You still ddn’t answer the question liar. You are pure sh__, and not worth another response. Go f your libertarian self.


230 posted on 11/14/2015 11:47:17 AM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957
I did answer the question. I don't hate either man. You should learn that ad hominems don't make an argument and since that is all you seem to have I'd like to thank you for displaying your intellectual shoe size for the whole world to see. I've no further desire to communicate with an intellectual pygmy and a gutter mouth like you, got it?
231 posted on 11/14/2015 11:55:31 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: jmacusa
Wrong liar, You accused that there were posters on this thread who wished the south had won. I challenged you to list one. Instead I caught you in a bald faced lie. Nothing more, nothing less.

Don't worry, you've shown your libertarian stripes now , and any claims of being a conservative will be met with laughter.

232 posted on 11/14/2015 12:02:51 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957
...and any claims of being a conservative will be met with laughter.

You mean like we do with you? LOL

233 posted on 11/14/2015 12:08:54 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Yep you southern bashing butt buddies sure stick together don’t you?


234 posted on 11/14/2015 12:18:36 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957
Yep you southern bashing butt buddies sure stick together don't you?

There's that highly vaunted Liberal Projection again. When it comes to laughing at slack-jawed yokels like you, everyone sticks together.

235 posted on 11/14/2015 12:40:25 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr
One question .... Did you get a reacharound from Jmcusa for that little ditty?

And as far as a claim of liberal projection, care to bring one up from my posting history? I'll be waiting.

You southern bashing fools are a joke

236 posted on 11/14/2015 12:46:51 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957

I need look no further for Liberal Projection than post #236. You’re too dimwitted to even recognize your own leftist tendencies.


237 posted on 11/14/2015 12:50:01 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Never mind, I didn’t realize that you were that stupid. Thanks for playing.


238 posted on 11/14/2015 12:59:05 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957

My pleasure. thanks for losing.


239 posted on 11/14/2015 1:00:51 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

lol...in your dreams.


240 posted on 11/14/2015 1:03:50 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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