[sonofron]

"You need to see "Birth of a Nation." It comes on the History Channel and sometimes AMC late at night"

When this movie was made the kkk was virtually nonexistent. If fact, it had been about 30-40 years since significant klan activity when that movie was made. It's unfortunate for the southerners who want to honor their dead who fought under that flag. Along with the kkk, the politicians in the south who oppossed segregation used this flag as a symbol of resistance. This only did further damage for legitimate use of the flag. For example putting it on top of the S.C. capitol building(state house or whatever). I have the flag and it makes me think about those who died fighting for a dream of a free country, seperate from the northerners who wanted to control their lives. Slavery was part of it, but i agree it would've been abolished shortly after the war. The war was over states rights first, then slavery was used to get more recruits for the north because they kept getting their arses handed to them by the army of northern virginia.

[gunnedah]

Folks it seems Jesse Jackson is up early this morning.You can tell this Illbay is Jesse because he is unliterate!

[Non-Sequitur]

Slavery was part of it, but i agree it would've been abolished shortly after the war.

Southern revisionism at its finest. Pray tell what evidence do you have that slavery would have been abolished shortly after the war?