[carton253]

Right here:

You are very correct. I think people that have tried to make the confederate flag into a symbol of state right's alone underestimate how closely tied those issues (slavery) were. Jim Crow laws perpetuated that tie and, I think, hilighted it. After all, it was states passing Jim Crow laws - not the Feds.

What a shallow understanding of history.

[TomOnTheRun]

What a shallow understanding of history.

Ok - how? Firstly, I'm talking perceptions and not actual history there. The perception that states rights was being used to justify Jim Crow and slavery before that is widespread and hardly uncommon. I wasn't even born by the time that idea had traction. I think Jim Crow laws strengthened the perception that those issues were linked. I think these are bad and false assumptions but I'm not silly enough to stand there and say that they aren't general assumptions.