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To: yarddog

The “jackals” defeated the Old South handily. Look, conservatives who are not from the South are just baffled by the attachment to the Confederate flag. To me, it stands for slavery and secession. I disapprove of both.


25 posted on 06/22/2015 12:12:35 PM PDT by maro (what did the President know and when did he know it?)
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To: maro

and jim crow


28 posted on 06/22/2015 12:13:39 PM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson (Stand with Rand 2016)
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To: maro

Most of the Yankees who fought were not the jackals. Besides they did not do it so “handily” as you put it unless you consider that twice as many Yankees died during the war as Confederates.

You now do sound like a jackal or maybe jackass.


32 posted on 06/22/2015 12:15:46 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: maro
To me, it stands for slavery and secession. I disapprove of both.

Whether it stands for slavery and secession to you or for rainbows and unicorns, your perception of the flag and what it stands for is of great importance to your mind and of little importance to others. To conservatives (especially hard-line Constitutional conservatives who still believe the Bill of Rights meant what it said) in the south, the confederate flag stands for the 10th Amendment, and for the rights and powers of the States to decide matters not delegated by the Constitution to the federal Congress. While the institution of slavery and the rights of the states to secede from the union were major issues leading to the War of Northern Aggression, they were not the only issues. To southerners, the confederate flag stands for pride in our southern heritage, for rugged individualism and a rural/agrarian culture rather than an industrial/mechanical culture, for self-determination rather than subservience to the dictates of Washington and a northeastern consortium of oligarchs. If you have bought into the idea that because some loud racists have hijacked our flag for their agenda that the flag stands for that agenda, then nothing any southerner can say will change your mind; but we will not let you or anyone else dictate to us what the flag stands for.

Once again, I will share this pic because it makes a good point:

74 posted on 06/22/2015 1:17:49 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: maro

You stand for historical stupidity and tyranny I disapprove of both.


77 posted on 06/22/2015 1:19:54 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: maro

I suppose you are baffled by states rights as well then?


125 posted on 06/22/2015 3:06:10 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: maro

Then don’t buy one.


269 posted on 06/23/2015 9:40:04 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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