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Hey, I don't like the DU folks anymore than you do. On the other hand the deal was my state (Indiana) would take down the massive display of Confederate battle flags in the State House and return them to the Souvrn' states to which they'd originally belonged and then everything would be OK again.

So, the display (of hundreds of flags as I recall it) was removed in the 1960s. They had to be sent to ALL 14 states that'd surrendered to Indiana units ~ doubt any other Union command was as successful against Confederates ~ and almost immediately you had a bunch of un-reconstructed types flying the battle flag again.

You guys broke the deal. It's time to give those flags back, or to quit thinking of them as having any legitimacy as an element of political discourse in this country.

So, you can't see, it's not just a question of PC but one of honor. Since Souvrn' people have demonstrated they have no honor (by not honoring the deal brokered in the 1960s), there's really no reason for me to be polite about it. (BTW, that applies to Souvrn' types living in the Souf' and Souvrn' types living in the North!)