Confederates In the Backyard?

Cornell Sun ^ | April 12, 2005 | Andy Guess

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie ping

[libertarianben]

Yankees have no idea what that flag really means. It's no use in telling them.

[HKTechBoy]

I wonder if the Confederate apologists helped the Japanese with their new Textbooks.

[Moderate right-winger]

From what I can remember, the Confederate forces were not able to hold N.O. and Southern Louisiana for long. They managed to keep the rest though for 4 years.

[meatloaf]

I don't see what the big deal is. We have a Stars and Bars flying outside.

[wardaddy]

I wonder if the Confederate apologists helped the Japanese with their new Textbooks.

Nope, but we can help you wipe yer butt and put your drawers back on genius...if you'd like.

[AnAmericanMother]

Ol' Andy still doesn't get it.

His world view was slightly disturbed, but he seems to have rolled over and gone back to sleep again.

[stainlessbanner]

HKTechBoy
Since Mar 11, 2005

[jude24]

I'm guessing you don't fly a Stars and Bars near Ithaca, NY.

To a New Yorker, the Confederate Battle Flag means something radically different than to the Southerner. The narrative we're told about the civil war is that it was about freeing slaves; southerners were told that it was about the state's rights to self-regulate. Thus, to a Southerner, the Confederate Battle flag symbolizes all that was right about the south - chivalry, defense of one's homeland, and the noble political sentiment of a limited federal government. To the Northerner, the Confederate Battle Flag symbolizes all that was evil about the south - an oppression of a people considered to be subhuman. Neither is exactly wrong, per se, it's more a matter of perspective than objective facts.

[cyborg]

LOL lord have mercy.

[wardaddy]

The offer still stands caker.

I'll even spring for Huggies Wipes.....with two in diapers I always have them handy.

There's only one problem Mr Sanctimony.

Your head is in the way....it will have to go.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Yankees have no idea what that flag really means. It's no use in telling them."

If they have to ask, they will never understand the answer.

[M. Espinola]

This is yet one of numerous feeble distortions by 'neo-confederates' attempting to soft soap what most Americans firmly believe concerning those entrenched in the failures of the past.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"I wonder if the Confederate apologists helped the Japanese with their new Textbooks."

Idiot.

[HKTechBoy]

Well, I'm sorry, I'm just not into perverted homosexual scatological games.

[harrowup]

From what I can remember, the Confederate forces were not able to hold N.O. and Southern Louisiana for long. They managed to keep the rest though for 4 years.

It's all swamp anyway.