.....flying the Stars and Bars big and open like that is not about states rights or slavery or Confederate sacrifice....I’ll tell you what it’s about....it’s about white resistance, and it’s another little milestone on the road to the coming Civil War...the first one was extremely violent but not particularly vicious....very little torture or mutilation of the dead...primarily because each side recognised the other as co-ethnics....the next one will be all out race war and will be terrible beyond belief....every time LaRaza demands return of “their” land, every time a Confederate flag goes up in public, every time a black public figure mentions reparations, think: race war is coming.
Stonewalls, whose g-grandfather served in Co G/3rd Fla Inf, was captured at Chickamauga, spent two years imprisoned at Camp Douglas in Chicago, and walked 1000 miles home in 1865 rather than take the loyalty oath and get a Union railroad pass.
It ain’t gonna happen.
Too many whites and blacks have close connections, too much intermarriage, too many Hispanics who could care less about color and too many blacks moving up into the society and becoming establishment stakeholders.
If we have another civil war it will probably be with the Muzzies when they become numerous enough to start demanding Sharia Law and try to take away our beers, bikinis, dogs and ham.
I live in a town that is about as far as you can get from the Confederacy in the contiguous 48 states. The town was founded by Union veterans. But an SCV group from another city has started flying the Confederate flag in a very prominent location in our town.
I suspect that a lot of the backers are not really celebrating their "heritage" but have attitudes similar to yours. Since I'm pretty sure that 99% of the local folk do not favor either slavery or a race war, the flag really doesn't belong here. But no doubt that's another motivating factor for the people who put it up.