Are you nuts? The rebel battle flag is sacred? What idolotrous religion do you subscribe to? And would you be equally supportive of efforts by descendents of the Waffen SS to "sanctify" (your word) the swastika? Maybe they could put it on the Bavarian flag?
our southron heroes,
You're free to heroize anyone you damn well choose, just as you're free to mispell "Southern". And I'm equally free to say your hero was an idiot. And that includes the Great Robert E. Lee (may Allah praise him).
our culture, our mores,
Huh?
our speech pattern
Jesus you have a thin skin. You're telling me nobody makes fun of Brooklyn accents? New Jersey accents? California Central Valley accents? Minnesota accents? Canadian accents? Not only are you insanely paranoid, but you seem insecure in your identity. I pity you.
and most of all US.
That's it. Everyone's out to get you. Black helicopters will rendevous over your domicile at 0-dark-30.
southrons (and yep, we dixie liberty folk do prefer the 19th century spelling) do HONOR our hero-martyrs, who fought to the death against all odds, trying to defend dixie liberty.
frankly, in re-reading your post, i'm becoming convinced that you may be one of the anti-southron bigots i'm talking about. teasing someone about his "jersey accent" is NOT the same thing as the HATEFILLED/HATEFUL sort of villification of a complete culture that i'm talking about.
even paranoids have real enemeies.
free dixie,sw
You could have saved a lot of key strokes.