[Tilted Irish Kilt]

sarasota:" A friend of mine who recently visited Virginia said Confederate flags were trending there!"

Having been born and raised as a 'Yankee', I identified the Confederate Flag as a symbol of the U.S. Civil War; thats all.
A friend of mine from Alabama corrected me, and said that it was a symbol "for States Rights over the control of the Federal Govt.".

[TexasRepublic]

A friend of mine from Alabama corrected me, and said that it was a symbol "for States Rights over the control of the Federal Govt.".

Exactly. A war for state rights, that is how the Southrens viewed it. The issue of slavery was secondary.