[T-Bone Texan]

I respect your decision to respect Lincoln.

Thank you for accepting my decision.

[katana]

If I’d been raised in the South and had ancestors who fought for the Confederacy I might just share your opinion. But my great grandfather was from SE Kentucky, hard scrabble mountain Union territory in a slave holding border State where it truly was brother versus brother. The western end was Blue Grass horse country plantation Democrat and pro-Confederacy, the east was small holding Appalachia Republican. Those family traditions are mighty hard to shake, both ways.