[Vigilanteman]

I've never owned a Confederate flag. I've never flown a Confederate flag. I think the Civil War was stupid and very avoidable. I think both sides were at fault, but the South more so.

That being said, when the PC crowd declares war on the Confederate flag, it gives me a desire to fly one just to get in their faces.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What you said. I would add tragic to my description of the Civil War.

[vmivol00]

You’ve got remember the Civil War generation was not very far removed from the Revolution. The South foresaw the onset of a strong centralized govt......just like the one they had fought a generation ago.

The view from a large part of the South was....”We just fought against a strong govt....telling us what to do, taxing us, etc.....and now we are setting up the same thing....no thanks”

Anyway, that is the way it was taught to me.

[roamer_1]

[...] a desire to fly one just to get in their faces.

And that, in part, is precisely it's purpose.