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Not sure where you got your perspective on this. This wasn't a rogue action of a few... the nation was torn in two, and you are calling half of the nation trecherous. Slaves were bought and sold under the American flag... The KKK marched under the American flag, but nobody is trying to ban it or villify any symbolism of pre-Civil War America.

The people of the south ... those with us today, are great patriots and will vote for George Bush in great numbers. The same cannot be said for the likes of Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Am I questioning the Patriotism of the Northeast? ... hard not to when they seem to favor someone who protested with the likes of Jane Fonda. It seems to me as though it is the neo-Yankees who are still fighting the war... they just can't let it go... and they cannot accept any mention or recognition that half of America was aligned with the Confederacy.

yes, i'm calling enthusiastic participants in rebellion at that time traitors, including perhaps some of my ancestry (haven't researched that one like the revolutionary war)

i definitely question the patriotism of those who vote against bush, given what's at stake in this election, and that of whoever doesn't vote and lets their state go dem

I agree with your comments.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation applied to Southern States only, not the Northern States. He refused to extend the proclamation to the slaves in the North. Those that think the Civil War was fought for the sole purpose of freeing the slaves has a narrow PC view of history.

http://civilwar.si.edu/lincoln_first_reading.html
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation

"In spite of vocal prodding from abolitionists, President Lincoln steadfastly refused to make the abolition of slavery a Northern goal in the early stages of the Civil War, lest doing so would alienate slaveholding border states that remained loyal to the Union. By mid-1862, however, Lincoln’s concern for enhancing the moral weight of the United States in the eyes of the world convinced him that it was time to act. In September 1862, he announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which would take effect on January 1, 1863, and declared all slaves free in those regions of the South still in rebellion."