Since the Civil War, major events such as the terrorist attacks have moved Southerners toward a stronger view of themselves as Americans first and Southerners secondNothing brings Americans together quicker than a cowardly sneak attack.
1 posted on
10/29/2001 11:26:49 AM PST by
aomagrat
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To: aomagrat
I fly both flags .... Stars and Stripes because I AM an American FIRST ... I fly the stars and Bars cause I believe in states rights tempered with a SMALL federal government
To: aomagrat
5 posted on
10/29/2001 11:38:35 AM PST by
Sparticle
To: aomagrat
"Collectively, Southerners do tend to be stronger supporters of the military than their non-Southern counterparts and value a military career more," he saidSeems as if the rest of the country is finally coming around to our grand way of thinking.
6 posted on
10/29/2001 11:39:49 AM PST by
PeaRidge
To: aomagrat
Until recently, if you saw a red, white and blue flag sticker on a Southern pickup truck, odds were good that it was a Confederate flag...Well maybe on SOUTHERN pickups, but the ones I see on most of the ones you "SANDLAPPERS" drive are either a stupid garnet chicken proclaiming "Go Cocks" or an ugly ornage and white polecat paw heralding 'Tigers"! You folks need to get yourselves a real good Southern football (Gators, Bulldogs, Vols, Bama, Rebel, 'Noles, Tarheels, Jackets, Hokies, etc.) team!
9 posted on
10/29/2001 11:59:10 AM PST by
meandog
To: aomagrat
You know, this is news only if you held the mistaken belief that the Confederate flags were displayed as symbols of hate. To me, this article provides proof that it is used as a symbol of heritage. An attack on buildings in New York would NOT cause a Southerner filled with hate to suddenly begin supporting America. That shows that it has never been about hate and that we do love our country. What we don't like is people looking down on us and telling us how to live our lives or run our states.
To: aomagrat
If you have a confederate flag on your pickup truck as a "symbol of southern heritage" you might as well have a picture of shackles and chains.
To: aomagrat
The reality is we as a nation were on the brink of war, between two ideological halves in this country, during the campaign coup.
Yes, the country was 100% on track for the second round of internal war.
Had Gore pressed forward in the election, despite exhausing all legal appeals, the educated citizenry, who had knowledge of the overwealming evidence indicating his treasonist ties, would have done their duty and cast off the corrupt government!
However, this is where our enemies failed to understand our people, as they saw us divided and weak as never before in their eyes!
This was their biggest Mistake!
The founding fathers were clear that any national government should be for our common defense, this is why, since the attacks, everyone is rallying around the flag.
We have witnessed in our modern times, the cause of both forms of government, and the problems with all government, that power corrupts.
The southern cause as we have learned was more a cause of states rights, and a people who failed to stray from the strict interpretation of the constitution.
The fears of the founders, as stated in the Federalist Papers, were correct in the fact that a federal system consolidates too much power, and under corrupt administrations cannot be trusted.
However, during war time, as we have learned through battle, a strong central government is necessary for efficiently managing and coordinating a war effort.
Therefore, we now recognize the good and the bad that can come with both forms of government.
They both have drawbacks and shortcomings.
In light of our discoveries, our citizenry has rediscovered freedoms meaning and the values our founders instilled in the drafting of the documentation for which we set out to construct of Republic.
Today I fly both flags, although recently I only flew the Confederate flag!
I flew the flag because of oppressive government intrusion and abuse of power, due to the usurpations of the past administration.
The Confederacy is the last insurance against all failed checks and balances of government corruption!
When our war campaign is complete, we will return to civilized peace time behavior as a country.
We must continue the work of downsizing of the government, and return the power to the states where it rightly resides.
As history repeats, we will consolidate power in time of war, although during peace time it should be dissolved.
However, we will never allow the constitution to be superseded, and reserve all rights to cast off any corrupt government!
We must be weary of any international entanglements that will claim to destroy our sovereignty and the rights of individuals.
The Confederate flag, and the southern people have every right to be very proud of their heritage, and resolve to maintaining the principles of the founders!
THE
STATE
OF
THE
CONFEDERACY
IS
UNITED!
To: aomagrat
"Until recently, if you saw a red, white and blue flag sticker on a Southern pickup truck, odds were good that it was a Confederate flag." (Charleston Post)
Bull. I still see plenty of Confederate flags on vehicles here in the Burlington, North Carolina area - one on my sedan.
Also, at a gun show in Lexington Oct. 20-21, at least half the bumper stickers being sold had CSA themes - many openly Southern-separatist.
Southerner and proud of it.
To: aomagrat
Ummmm...I hate to rain on your parade but this whole confederate flag thing in the south has been and still is a class issue. All southerners don't fly confederate flags; in deed, many of them think such demonstrations are quite silly. I was born and raised in Atlanta and I am amazed at how some of these stereotypes develop; and how class-based this kind of behavior is. Oh, and yes, I have relatives in rural Georgia. Same story - it's not an Atlanta thing. This behavior has nothing to do with being 'southern'. My mother (yes, we're white folks) supported the civil rights movement back in the fifties and sixties and she says it was the same then, too. Not all southerners were racist, but boy did the media love to find the ones (or should I say, the trash) that were!
To: aomagrat
...unreconstructed Southern partisans...[BLOATED EUPHEMISM ALERT]
To: aomagrat
My personal favorite, with Old Glory and the Battle Flag crossed in the background...
American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God."
64 posted on
10/29/2001 6:12:14 PM PST by
eloy
To: aomagrat
September 11, 2001...FERGIT, HELL!
To: aomagrat
Ok, I give. I'm a southerner. Family roots go back to Tennessee and Indiana. I have relatives who are hick racists, there are only a couple left, and they'll be dead soon, and I have relatives who are black (by marriage).
I COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG. Fly it, don't fly it, I don't care. It's offensive, FINE! It's my heratige, FINE! This is freakin' America for God's sake. This whole subject gives me tired head, so, I'm on to something else. Bye Y'all.
To: aomagrat
Nothing brings Americans together quicker than a cowardly sneak attack. Y' ain't whistlin Dixie bout that un
To: aomagrat
I've seen quite a few confederate flags here in North Florida...
123 posted on
10/30/2001 9:04:38 AM PST by
cactmh
To: Colt .45
As per your request...
To: aomagrat
I am flying the 13 star 1776 flag. Southerners can be in agreement with what that flag stood for and not compromise loyalty to the Southern Cross.
To: aomagrat
yes i know about heritage and symbolism and all that stuff... but i'm indifferent about flying the confederate flag because of one reason: THE SOUTH LOST. japan lost, and they can't fly the land of the rising sun flag anymore. germany lost, and they can't fly the swastika anymore. the confederate states lost, and they don't exist as a country or a sovereign nation thereafter. why do southerners get to keep the stars and bars? there should only be one flag, the flag of the conquerer, the stars and stripes.
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FYI
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