Well said. I also find that I am often judged immediately simply because I speak with pride about some of the things the confederacy stood for. Slavery is and was repulsive. Why is it that when I speak for the south I am immediately considered pro-slavery and/or anti-American? That is simply repulsive when I could not be more opposite either of those things.
ignorance. pure ignorance. and we can't seem to get away from it.
You answered it. Ignorance.