[PeaRidge]

“Let us be certain that our children know that the war between the States was not a contest for the preservation of slavery, as some would have them to believe, but that it was a great struggle for the maintenance of Constitutional rights, and that men who fought were warriors tried and true, Who bore the flags of a Nation's trust, And fell in a cause, though lost, still just, And died for me and you.”
J. Taylor Ellyson (1847-1919), Mayor of Richmond and Lt. Governor of Virginia.

[ColdOne]

Great post! Thank you for posting!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Racial chattel slavery (a variety of servitude that was never endorsed by God in the bible) was embroiled in the interests of the South, but also, if to a lesser degree, in the interests of the North.

God did not look kindly on this, and a worse curse was on Dixie than on the North.

However the Dixie flag could mean a number of things, not just antebellum attitudes about slavery. Because of allergy to some possible usages of a word or a symbol, does not mean we must frown on all such usages.

[jmacusa]

It certainly was about preserving slavery damn it!

[jmacusa]

To Hell it wasn’t about slavery. Tell me something professor, if the South had won the war would it have freed the slaves?