Anybody who is offended at the sight of the Confederate battle flag, needs a history lesson.
Makes you wonder, how many Audie Murphys and Alvin Yorks and Chester Nimitzes the South has to contribute, before these selfrighteous SOB's back off.
But actually, it's all about contemporary politics, which has been, whether people realize it or not, all about peeling off Midwesterners from the Republican coalition by holding up "bad" Southerners and yelling "BOOOOOOOOGerboogerboogerbooger!"
The Mark Foley thing, sprung right before the election, is a variation on the same idea.
For the 'Rats, it's all about demoralizing Republican voters by dragging in anything they think will work, while trying to spike up the black, 90%-straight-ticket Democratic vote, by talking up "those people" -- meaning rednecks -- and talking about "saving the people" -- meaning black people, who are supposedly going to be bundled into gas chambers any day now by Denny Hastert and Newt Gingrich.