[nobdysfool]

Edwards shot back that "the Confederate flag is an offensive symbol to people all across the country."

It is my understanding that the Confederate Flag was not flown at South Carolina's Statehouse until the late 50's / early 60's (1960's, that is). It's a touchy subject down there, because some know that the State began to fly it as a protest to the Civil Rights movement. I have this info from a relative who lives in South Carolina, and I just spent two months there myself.

In my view (as a Yankee-born sympathizer with the South over States' Rights), the Confederate Flag is a part of the heritage and history of the South, and those who find it offensive need to learn to be a little less sensitive to their own prejudices, and a little more sensitive to the rights of others to hold a different view than their own. All this PC crap is just prejudice taken to another level, and re-named to sugar-coat it and hide its real intent.

In the Old South, Edwards would be branded as a Yankee sympathizer or Carpetbagger, and dealt with accordingly...

[Moose4]

The Confederate naval jack was raised over the South Carolina Statehouse in 1962 by an act of the legislature to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Recent Unpleasantness. It was signed into law by the Governor.

Governor Ernest "Fritz" Hollings. Democrat.

Funny how nobody in the media ever brings that up to Senator Leghorn when the flag issue comes up, eh?

BTW, Edwards is toast down here even though he's a homeboy (born in Seneca, SC). The hardcore fanatics in the NAACP are busting him on "breaking the boycott" by paying for gas, food, and lodging for his staff here. Most all the whites except the guilty liberals and some Yankee transplants have written off the Democrats anyhow. Sharpton will carve off enough of the black vote that Edwards has no chance.

I honestly have no idea who would win if they held the Dem primary today. I can't see most of the candidates appealing to South Carolina Democrats at all.

}:-)4

[PistolPaknMama]

some know that the State began to fly it as a protest to the Civil Rights movement. I have this info from a relative who lives in South Carolina, and I just spent two months there myself.

I live here all the time, all my life. I know that it was raised for the 100th anniversary of the War of Northern Agression. While there was a provision to put it up, there was no provision to take it down. So it stayed there until July 2000.

[PistolPaknMama]

In the Old South, Edwards would be branded as a Yankee sympathizer or Carpetbagger, and dealt with accordingly...

It ain't over! :-)

[Verginius Rufus]

Since Edwards was born in the South, he can't be a carpetbagger, but he could be called a scalawag (the term for Southern whites who sided with the Yankees during Reconstruction), but with a difference--many of the scalawags were people of principle who just happened to disagree with the majority of the white Southerners on secession and on Reconstruction policies. It would be unjust to the historic scalawags to lump Edwards in with them.

[stand watie]

President John F. Kennedy requested that the CSA flag be flown on the SC Statehouse in MAR 1961, in memory of the war-dead.

the origional letter is in the USC Relic Room across from the statehouse.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

the word is SCALAWAG!

a scalawag is a southernborn traitor to one's state. NOTHING is lower than a scalawag. NOTHING!

FRee dixie,sw

[sweetliberty]

While it is true that the flag didn't go up on the state house until the 60's I believe it was, it should still have been a state issue. So what if they didn't agree with some of the legislation and chose to make it known. That's beside the poiint anyway. They caved to the initial pressure and removed the flag from the statehouse and placed it at a confederate memorial and the whining malcontents of the NAACP now want it removed from there. If a confederate flag doesn't belong on the memorial for those who died for it, then I don't what does. This is an issue of freedom of which we have been granted many in this country. The NAACP want to take away our freedom. They do NOT have that right. Somewhere along the line they seemed to read that they have a right to not be offended. Sorry folks. THAT one isn't in there. Deal with it.