All well and good and the way I saw it myself maybe 10 years ago.
But you have this vocal group who rails at President Lincoln and lies about the real heroes of the war -- Union soldiers.
What you describe is NOT what it means to them. To them it is just a front for the racism they can no longer openly express.
Walt
Perhaps, but I'm not speaking for them. I'm speaking for myself, our friend UCFRoadWarrior, and others like us that are not still fighting a war that ended 100 years before I was born. I'm more concerned about what the future holds.
"What you describe is NOT what it means to them. To them it is just a front for the racism they can no longer openly express."
Again, you may very well be right, but I'm pretty comfortable in saying they do not represent the majority of Southerners today, or even the majority of Southerners who see the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of our heritage. I was born the year the Voting Rights Act was passed, and the year after the Civil Rights Act was passed. I've never known life otherwise. The thought of slavery or Jim Crow is about as repulsive to me (and most proud Southerners) as Janet Reno in a thong. I'm quite confident that I speak for many Southerners when I say that when I see the Confederate Battle Flag, I see a little piece of home, no matter where I may be at that moment.
You're absolutely right that some folks are still fighting the War, and that some see the flag as symbol of white supremacy, of hatred for blacks, whatever. But they're a fraction of those who love our home region, and the flag that represents it. A few bad apples are ruining the whole thing for the rest of us, but there's nothing new there, I guess.
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