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Are you implying I am a domestic criminal...?

No, YOU'RE doing everything you can to make me out a "bad guy," though, which further illustrates my point: You have no argument.

The only "heritage" that stupid piece of cloth you call a "flag" represents is the willingness to kill to protect an investment in human misery, and willful rebellion against the legal and lawful authority of the United States.

If you're proud of that, fine. The United States of America has fought many wars--including the Civil War--over the Consitution's enumerated and implied rights, and you have the privilege of thinking and believing and expressing those thoughts any way you'd like, no matter how lame-brained they might be.

But you are a hypocrite if you swore to defend the Constitution and this nation against all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC, and yet claim as your "heritage" the wanton rebellion against this nation.

A hypocrite.

You guys seem to think that Southern heritage is all about slavery, and by doing so show your ignorance of the matter. Illbay, you say "that piece of cloth" represents only human misery, etc. etc. divel, drivel. Maybe to you it does. To me, it represents catfishing in Arkansas, pecan pies, hot, humid days, kudzu in Georgia, bluebonnets along I-35 in Texas, mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby, the hills of Tennessee and Alabama, beautiful women with their beautiful accents, civility, and a way of life I've not found anywhere else in my extensive travels of our great nation. I've never owned slaves, would not have had I been alive "back then", and abhor racial bigotry. But you two "gentlemen" seem to be obsessed with the issue of slavery.

Illbay, you seem to also be dwelling on the secession as unlawful, illegal, immoral, distasteful or whatever...so was it unlawful, illegal and immoral for our common forefathers to "seceed" from England in the 1700s? I believe even Abe Lincoln himself said something to the effect that when a people find their government has become oppressive and tyrannical, it's their "duty" to throw off the shackle. Something to that effect.

Guys, there have been millions of Southerners born since the end of the institution of slavery...it's NOT part of MY Southern heritage, or that of any other Southerner drawing breath today. But old prejudices die hard, don't they? I guess you Northerners still think we don't pave our roads, walk around barefoot, are toothless and illiterate, have never heard of refrigeration or air conditioning, or electricity for that matter, and that the Reconstruction-era military occupation should still be in effect. So if the South is so damn awful, Illbay, why don't you take I-10 to Mobile, hop on I-65, and don't stop until you're somewhere north of Indianapolis?

This is all I'm saying on the matter. It's obvious we'll never see eye to eye on the subject of Southern heritage, so why belabor the point? I'll say good-bye and look for y'all's ignorant and misinformed posts the next time someone posts a positive article about the South.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

i wish i was as smart as you think you are. in 1941, president roosevelt was told that numerous southrons were not willing to swear allegiance to the stars & stripes. he asked his informant if the volunteers would swear allegience to the flag of dixie & their home state. when told that they would, he stated that allegience to dixie and their state was APPROPRIATE & SUITABLE for service IN the US armed forces.

in case you haven't noted the fact, we southrons have put away our requests for freedom from the hatefilled, anti-southron,ignorant, racebaiting, socialist damnyankees during this time of tribulation & sadness in the US. we MUST all hang together, as an attack on ANY part of the country is an attack on dixie, too.

for dixie,sw