We have one flag here. The one being raised on Mt. Surabachi. Not some rebel rag of treason any more than The Hammer and Sickle.
You sir are an idiot. Trying to equate peaceful separation with treason was a typical trick to whip up the passions of the Republican base. Being part of a organization that once joined one can never leave it is the operational code of the mafia and other camorra like groups and the Soviet GRU. Exactly why could the northern state not exist without the lower south being in the same country.
Not some rebel rag of treason any more than The Hammer and Sickle. Comments such as this give me regrets-regrets that dueling is now illegal.