What if we put in say a different word instead of "southern" and removed the flag?
How about.....
German?
Or Japanese?
Or Nazi?
Or Bushido?
Or Communist?
Or Klan?
Or even Democrat?
See how that works? You could make the case that anyone of the above would fit perfectly in place of Southern and convey the same exact message.
Victory is great but getting your butt beaten down every time you open your pie holes about how losing is somehow more honorable then victory because you lost so well is just plain stupid.
I'm sure that sort of message really appealed to a lot of Nascar fans
Yep, Olde Dicky Spude sure ran one hell of a race and would have won it too iffen he hadn't blown all four tires on the first lap and flipped his car about a zillion times in the infield and got in a fight with the paramedics, but he ran a honorable race.
Southern heritage is based upon the assumption that Democrats were right to rebel against the government because they could not change it to meet their expectations of it.
Or put another way, in simpler terms even all but the dumbest Southerners could understand,
if you can't change the government, leave the country.
Or in even simpler terms a child would understand....
Don't like the rules of the game, take your ball and go home.
Of course if you are going to lose and lose badly because your cause is WRONG, remember to do it with honor, so you can celebrate how well you lost for the next 140 years.
Now I understand why they call you one of "Uncle Sam's MISGUIDED Children". You're comment shows how ignorant you are about what the Founders believed and where our basic American ideals come from. Go back and read the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Then study up on your history of the years leading up to the War of Supression - then we'll chat.
That's exactly what the South did.
Then "Honest Abe" followed them down the street, shot them, stole the ball, and then told everyone back home that he got it from Daniel Webster.