Confederate flag controversy: Where do 2016 presidential candidates stand?

http://www.al.com ^ | June 23, 2015 | Madison Underwood

[NKP_Vet]

The flying of the Confederate flag on government and private property has become the issue du jour. A national debate on the flag's place in modern America has sparked following the murder of nine African Americans in a Charleston, S.C. church last week. The killer, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, who is white, frequently posed for pictures with the Confederate flag.

In the wake of that incident, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has called for the flag near her state's capitol to go away. eBay, Wal-Mart, and other retailers are removing products with the symbol from sale. Politicians in Mississippi are weighing whether or not to keep the flag around.

Nearly all the declared candidates – and some of the undeclared potential candidates – have weighed in on whether the flag should be flown, in South Carolina or otherwise.

[Salamander]

Nobody cares about reality.

Nobody cares that it ~still~ flew over Union held slave states after the “emancipation proclamation” freed slaves in the confederate states.

Seriously.

Nobody cares.

[P-Marlowe]

And border states, too! Please!

Sorry, unless your state actually flew the stars and bars, you have to stay in the Union.

Rules are rules.

[Salamander]

But we got screwed and martial-lawed!

T’weren’t our fault!

[Salamander]

Our state flag still has subliminal Confederate clues and our state song, OMG...

The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland! My Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Dear Mother! burst the tyrant’s chain,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain,
Maryland! My Maryland!
She meets her sisters on the plain-
“Sic semper!” ‘tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland! My Maryland!

I hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland! My Maryland!
The Old Line’s bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland! My Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she’ll come! she’ll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!

That has *got* to count for something!

[P-Marlowe]

That has *got* to count for something!

I'll take it up with the Rules Committee.

[clearcarbon]

Clinton and her broom are up on the fence top measuring the political wind and rolling fireballs made of methane gas and ethanol.

[Tzimisce]

Wow - the left has taken over everything and we’re arguing about a flag?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wishful thinking. The lefties would flood the Conservative states and destroy them, just like they've done to so many other states. Look at California and it's RED spread (sorry, don't use the media newspeak: RED is Communist/Democrat) from 1980 to 2008:

1980

2008

The moonbattery there used to be contained to the loony-toons areas of San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley and Davis. Now it's a cancer that has spread inward from the coast.

[Kozak]

Sarcasm my ass. Lets do it today.
Speaking as someone who lives in NC.

[Kozak]

And it flew over the Evil Jim Crow era for a century too.

Must be banned.

[Salamander]

Oh, God bless you!

[cynwoody]

You forgot the caption ...

The Ku Klux Klan Karnival
Kañon City, Kolorado
1926-04-26

I can imagine it provoked futile discussions among descendents, e.g., "Is that Uncle Lester up top middle?"

http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/welcome-to-kolorado-klan-kountry/Content?oid=1119033

[Pelham]

+1

[Pelham]

"Up until 1860, this flag flew over all the Slave States:"

I think it should be this one, the 33 Star flag:

[Johnny Stevenson]

Agreed! Let’s get those Southern States out of the USA now! :) :)

My God, how awesome would that be!

[dfwgator]

I suspect once they take down the Confederate Flag, they will immediately set their sights on the original “flag of slavery”, the U.S. flag itself.

[wardaddy]

Good idea

Considering where I live

And you know the real irony is it would actually be more diverse than the states where all these yankees now feeding on our bones live

Sans California

But importantly it would have a decisive enough majority of conservative whites to rule with votes

And our blacks even with their issues are more God fearing

Plus we get old school TexMexicans and Florida Cubans.and Colombians..the best of the latino races

And coastal Vietnamese...a resourceful family oriented bunch

We got all we need

Hell yea

Pity Kentucky and Missouri

We take western KY and Missouri south of I-70

Perfect

[wardaddy]

I hear that every election yet look how they treat at us

If you’re southern you’re feeling a sense of total abandonment by those you elected

[Pelham]

Oh great, just abandon us out here in California.

Well we’re already a defacto part of Mexico so what the hell... we can elect Jebcito Bush el jefe de California and make our Mexican allegiance official.

[wardaddy]

I’ve got 10 acres

I can subdivide by zoning down to 5

Plus Bedford county to my south named after you know who has cheaper land

We’d sponsor you