> First of all, the majority of Southerners did not hold slaves.
And neither did the majority of Germans in the Nazi era.
> the war was not about slavery at all
Utter hogwash. Take a read of the Alabama state constitution of 1861:
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/1861/1861ord1_20.html
Do a search on the word "slave." See how many times it comes up.
* Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled , That an ordinance adopted by the people of this State, in Convention at Huntsville, on the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, disclaiming forever all right to the waste or unappropriated lands lying withing this State, is hereby repealed; but the navigable waters of this State shall remain forever highways, free to the citizens of this State, and of such States as may unite with the State of Alabama in a Southern Slaveholding Confederacy.
A "Southern Slaveholding Confederacy." Ponder that a while.
> the Republican Party is now reliant on the Southland for it's victories.
Ah. Moral reletivism, then, is it? What's wrong is only wrong when it doesn't hurt your political party for it to be wrong?
I wonder why no one else has responded to your very informitive post?
Furthermore, as a Son of the South, I understand that We in The South Lost the War. In addition, I understand that the side that loses a War should forgo the symbols of their defeated regime and have some allegiance to the victor.
you left off the very last paragraph, where they declard that the State of Alabama is opposed to reopening the African Slave Trade.