[Mr.Grumble]

I disagree. The Civil War was not primarily over slavery, but over the Constitution and which interpretation of it would prevail. The South lost and we’ve had a centralized national power ever since that has given us the New Deal, the Great Society, and coming soon, national healthcare. The enemies of liberty have taken the stain of slavery and used it as a weapon of shame against a nation that was trying to break away from the past. Don’t forget that it is the Constitution that institutionalized slavery and the United States which maintained the practice, north and south, for a great many years. To heap all the ignominy on the South is to facilitate the wholesale rewriting of history and to endorse political change at the coercive point of a gun rather than through the peaceful, legal process. However, at this point we’ve probably lost the battle as the facts of this matter have been concealed beneath decades of propagandizing and indoctrination. It should be enough that we leave the sovereign people alone to fly whatever flag they please and at the same time try to reassert the liberty that the flag once stood for before it was so defamed.

[gidget7]

APPLAUSE!! Bump

I couldn’t agree more, and that is coming from a born and raised Yankee! I hope and pray I will be able to retire in “rebel country”!

I cannot believe ANY Conservative would actually think the Civil War was about slavery! It was not.

[tueffelhunden]

Only problem Mr.Grumble

It wasn’t a Civil War. The 2 sides were not fighting over control of one government, one side wanted to leave the other wanted to enforce their will by force of arms.

It was, as has been accurately stated before, Mr. Lincoln’s War or the War of Yankee Aggression.

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I disagree. The Civil War was not primarily over slavery, but over the Constitution and which interpretation of it would prevail. The South lost and we̢۪ve had a centralized national power ever since that has given us the New Deal, the Great Society, and coming soon, national health care.

Right, I'm sure they were all up in arms about all that in 1860. Try looking at history with the eyes of the people who actually made it.