“None of the rest of us give a hoot where you fly your silly flags, on holiday’s or otherwise”
Not to mention shooting guns, carrying guns, drinkin shine and shooting guns and pretty much being free as opposed to you poor schnooks up in the new Communist States of America just North of the Mason Dixon line. So ask yourself who really won?
The slaves are up North now. LOL!
I agree that Marse O in the Big House makes us all feel more than a little down-trodden.
But I also live way out in the country, far from big cities and maddening crowds, and so only ever feel "oppressed" when I turn on the news... ;-)
As for who won that war, well the same could be said for the Second World War, after which our enemies -- less their insane leaders -- have made very nice lives for themselves.
So yes, they won, in a sense, and that was certainly our long-term goal at the time.