[AzaleaCity5691]

When, has anyone who defends the South in this day and age spoken out in favor of slavery?

Oh wait, it hasn't happened. The people of Georgia if given a vote on the 1956 flag would have chosen the 1956, however, do-gooders in the legislature didn't want to give the people that choice because they knew what they would do.

Look at the results of the flag referendums in Mississippi.......

I'm sorry that some people still like to believe stereotypes about the Southland, but that's their problem, not mine

[LS]

I lived in the south for years; played Rock and Roll throughout Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Loved the people, liked the area, but even in the 1970s I still found a high level of racism (and this among "rockers" who, one would think, would be more liberal). It was ok to play with a black on stage, but NEVER to be friends with one.

Your point, however, is quite right, and it is one of the first points that Roger Ransom makes in his new book, "The Confederate States of America." He says that whatever the (belated) rationale for "states rights" was, no one in America today would reinstitute a slave system.