There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the courage of individual Confederate soldiers and officers, but I don’t think that succeeding from the union and inciting a civil war which claimed over 600K lives is anything to be proud of. But if they want to celebrate it anyway, it’s their business.
Amd where did most of these deaths occure? North or South?
First of all, the word is "seceding." Secondly, a number of Southern states had asked the federal government to remove its forts from their property under threat of violent takeover. The feds refused. Thirdly, the South did no more to "incite" the Civil War than the North did, and blaming one side over the other is simplistic.
None of which bears too heavily on the pride Southerners rightfully feel about their heritage of fierce independence and gentility. Those are some of the traits embodied in the Confederate flag, and are most certainly virtues of high esteem.
And by the way, I'm a Yankee born and bred. But my sympathies lie elsewhere ...
Well, there wouldn’t have been any war deaths if the North let the South secede. The South, after all, didn’t invade the North (not until after the war was on).
You’re gonna get flamed by the Jefferson Davis brigade, you Yankee cur you. ;p
Good people did what they thought was right - on both sides.
States’ rights was the issue - plus the bleeding of the South by the northern states. Surely you don’t believe what you read in your school books about the War between the States.
Spoken like a yankee. Nearly every damn yankee state is so freakin messed up, thousands every year are fleeing to the South for a better life. Well done D.C....well done.