FYI, in case you missed it in the papers: Confederates were Americans.
Those of us who chose to show respect for Americans past can take all the abuse you'd like to dish out, Mr "I wish y'all were dead," knowing that we are not the ones in the wrong. Those of you who choose to incessantly berate the Confederates show not only disrespect for them, but also for their ideological forerunners (Jefferson, Henry, Lee, et al), and the small-government conservatives of today.
And if that isn't rediculous enough, you hold agreement with your rediculous notion of a solidified Union held together at the point of a bayonet as a litmus test for patriotism. Real American of you.
Emphasis on the "were" the second they plunged into their sedition & insurrection against the United States government and her citizens. You recall that, it was 1861 and it was gone with the wind by mid-1865.
"Those of us who chose to show respect for Americans past can take all the abuse you'd like to dish out, Mr "I wish y'all were dead,"
Do you feel abused, isolated, maybe even rejected? Your breaking my heart...
"knowing that we are not the ones in the wrong."
Whose "we" chump? Since when were you correct on anything?
"Those of you who choose to incessantly berate the Confederates show not only disrespect for them.."
Once again you forgot about the 'neo' as in neo-confederate. As far as any disrespect for cult worshiping anti-American malcontents in a perpetual state of rebellion, I am glad you catch on so quickly.
"Real American of you."
Don't mention it.
may i also remind everyone that had it not been for the IMPERIALIST outlook of the north (and not incidentally the DUMB decision of lincoln, the tyrant, to start a war for NO REASON except to gain more PERSONAL POWER & $$$$$$$.) there would now be THREE free republics living PEACEFULLY side by side,just as Canada & the USA do.
free dixie,sw