Posted on 06/21/2015 7:04:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe, if it's an actual "historic battle flag," and not a replica.
But I doubt anybody's going to break into a museum to do that.
So, no, it's probably not "exactly like" that.
Mexicans didn't believe Texas would secede to join the United States in the 1820s, then American settlers moved in until they made up the majority of Texas' population, and they wanted to be part of a country that spoke English.
Texas will be majority hispanic and spanish-speaking within a few decades, if demographics continue along the current trends.
Didn't say you did. Ann Coulter does, however. It depends on what audience she's speaking to on any given day. If she's at a Lincoln Day dinner in a northern state, she says "our party freed the slaves". If she's speaking to some Tea Party group in the deep south, she embraces the confederate flag and claims the civil war "had nothing to do with slavery".
So, no, its probably not “exactly like” that.
Yet. Its close enough.
Ann Coulter will do whatever she has to do to sell her latest book.
When did Tejas secede from Mexico to join the United States? Texians defeated the Mexican army and became a republic. After ten years Texas joined the United States.
That means Mexico was defeated twice in Texas. Yet they still fly the Mexican flag at parades and every protest. So, I might be willing to support no longer flying the Stars and Bars if they’ll stop flying the Mexican flag in our country.
Here’s how I see it. The Founding Fathers knew they would fail if the southern states didn’t join with the northern states. But to get them to join they had to allow them to keep the institution of slavery. Less than a hundred years later they changed their minds. So the southern states said “Then we’ll change our minds and leave the union we voluntarily joined.”
But a tyrannical government went to war to force people to remain it’s citizens against their will.
And for those who always say “It was about slavery” let me say this. If that war was to be fought today I’d fight under the Confederate flag (Not the stars and bars). But the thought of owning another person sickens me. So, I wouldn’t be fighting to keep slavery. I’d be fighting a tyrannical government.
Valid point. I don't think the Mexican flag should be flown at parades in the United States, either. Or the British flag for that matter.
I might be willing to buy the argument that "we can't let the media define the confederate flag as a symbol of racism" if the freepers making that arguments weren't the same ones that happily accept the "GOP=red state" argument because the media decided back in 2000 that the color red, traditionally associated with communism, should now be used to represent Republicans. They can reclaim the confederate flag when they stop following the media's marching orders to say "red state" constantly.
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