[dp0622]

They can go to hell.

I’m a yankee and the South didn’t start the war. They would have whipped us if they had the same number of men. Lincoln was an idiot who didn’t care about slavery till he could use it as a rallying cry.

And how the @#$@#$ does having 300 bucks entitle you to get out of fighting? what was the logic exactly in the north?

Slavery would have eventually disappeared from the South anyway. Only 5 percent of southerners owned slaves and as cheap labor poured in (like my Italian ancestors) there would have been no need for it and it would have faded. I’m sure there would have been a desire to have it ended after a while also. Wouldn’t have been worth the incessant outcry from the Europeans.

The Confederate flag should be removed why? because of slavery?

Should the American flag be removed because the Indians couldn’t fight well enough to fend us off or because Mexicans were too lazy to conquer Texas?

As we would say on Staten Island to these protesters, “Forget about it and get the @#$#$ out of here before I bust your @#$@#$ing head open”

[ifinnegan]

I’m a direct descendent of a Mississippi soldier in the Civil War and of course the south started the war.

[knarf]

I'm a Yankee and there is no Confederate "sign" ... on the Mississippi flag ...

like you lick a stamp and put it on an evelope

Most, if not all states had NO flag prior to The War Between The States and it was THAT defining moment in American history (officially 1894 ... it took 25 or so years), that Mississippi proudly declared it's historic participation in a very American political event

The Confederate representation was no more an "addition" than the Magnolia Tree of 1861.

The Mississippi state flag has been unchanged for 121 years

Now ... if someone wants to change or remove something that is on an identifier or a flag ....

I strongly suggest the newcomer

African

Be removed from the word AMERICAN

IT IS A SYMBOL OF HATE, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

[Resolute Conservative]

“Should the American flag be removed because the Indians couldn’t fight well enough to fend us off or because Mexicans were too lazy to conquer Texas?”

There are those that would agree with this and will push it someday.

[mrsmel]

They can go to hell.

Amen and halellujah. I wish folks would just leave Mississippi alone, we're not bothering them. That flag isn't bothering them. Don't they have some gangsta murderers to go deal with, killing toddlers and old people, since "black lives matter"? Mississippians took a vote, we decided we wanted to keep the flag, and after that it's nobody's business but ours. The left really are a bunch of fascists. They just can't stand it until everyone knuckles under to them, on no matter how small of an issue, but they won't even admit the real issues, much less address them. If they actually fixed the real issues, they couldn't continue to use them as excuses to try to browbeat everyone else into paying for their mistakes and supporting their fake agendas.

I swear, I'm inclined to go stand on Hwy 90 with a sign about Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome and their torture/rape/murders, and how the "black power" fist is the cause for their horrific murders.