[xzins]

They were honorable and brave men. But today even the honorable heroes of the South are treated as pariahs and any hint of Southern Pride now carries with it the taint of racism.

Thomas Jefferson is such a dilemma for liberals. They want to elevate him for their (wrong) take on his rejection of religion, they need to pillory him for being a slave owner (sally whatshername), and they want to both love him and hate him for the revolution...love because of the word revolution...hate because of the word freedom.

Southern White Slave Owner Freedom Monger!

[P-Marlowe]

I grew up in a city where one of the local high schools had the Rebel mascot and they flew the confederate battle flag at their sports events. Their mascot wore the confederate enlisted uniform and carried a replica musket.

I just checked and apparently the school mascot is still the Rebel. I don’t know if they still fly the stars and bars at their sporting events or if their mascot still wears the confederate uniform. I would clearly be surprised if they allowed him to carry a replica of a confederate musket.

I tend to think that these days their mascot is some generic non threatening multi cultural rendition of something they can refer to as a Rebel.