...and he let the North win.
Oh...I wouldn't go that far.....:)
I realize you Yanks THINK you are superior, but if the South had the same resources in men and material, you guys would have been BURIED in your blue suits to the last man.
You're like the guy in the commercial teasing the monkey with the banana and the monkey grabs the beer he put down. You're just flaming these guys and they're getting in their licks.
I think it's cool you worked at Stonewall Jackson's shrine and I'm sure you must have come away with many positive impressions of Jackson, the Confederacy and the people who believed in the cause, and their ancestors.
I love driving Rtes. 3 and 20 between Petersburg and Orange and seeing all the plaques dedicated to Jackson.
Too many people infuse racism into the discussion of the Confederate flag. Slavery didn't push to Lincoln to war, by his own words, and it didn't fuel the working-class Southerners, who didn't benefit from slavery but fought for the Confederacy.
I think people who are "offended" by the Confederate flag probably greatly overlap with those who are offended that they can't ban smoking from every place in America, even those places they don't own, or in most cases, frequent.
I despise them both.
The battle for black progress isn't being won over this issue, it's being won in black homes and school districts by dedicated families facing enormous obstacles, white racism being pretty far down that list.