Ma'am, I apologize - I did not mean it as an insult. I certainly don't feel threatened. What I meant by my statement was that some take a stand for what is important to them, and others don't. I am just as passionate about attempts to seculalize/atheize our state, about the slaughter of millions of innocents, as I am about the preservation of our history, and in my belief that Southern actions were legal remedies to a defect in the federal relations with other states in a voluntary union without delegated powers to prohibit secession.
To that end, I firmly believe that my ancestors, and millions of other Southerners were not traitors - they did not owe allegiance to the union and they did not receive protection from it. I simply think that revisionists have whitewashed history to portray Northerners as saints and Southerners as racist bigots.
I've lived here all my life, and the most racist people I have met have alway been transplanted yankees. One moved into our neighborhood, and asked my wife and how how to prevent blacks from moving next door. He didn't know that I moved next door to a very sweet black lady and her children, nor did he know about the other black families near us. I simply told him if he wanted to avoid blacks to move back north.
You are still mischaracterizing the issue I think.
It's not at all that I'm not willing to stand up for what is important to me, it's that the 1956 flag is not that important to me, or to most people in Georgia.
I like the current flag. It honors our ancestors without the negative connotations of the Battle Flag.
I heard a man on the radio the other day who is trying to change the image of the swastika. He says it was used as a religious symbol by certain sects for centuries before it was adopted as the Nazi symbol. The CBF doesn't have negative associations for you, but unfortunately it does for many people, including possibly your next door neighbors.