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There is so much ignorance in this thread it's really comical. It's simply a symbol of "Dixie" which by the way was written by a Nawthener....lol even he knew the South was better. Dixie that is cornbread and collard greens, short track racing, pretty southern belles, country music, Lynyrd Skynyrd, politeness, manners, etc.
Do they not know that the war has been over since 1865 and that they lost? Do they realize what that ridiculous, uncreative flag (must of took a genius to come up with the idea of putting an X on it) stands for? Do they no longer want to be part of the United States? It is very anti-American to support the views this flag represents.
Read about what the North did to the South during the "Reconstruction". The blacks were pissed because after the war we didn't integrate them completely (I don't blame them. We were wrong.) The South is pissed because they were treated terribly by the North after the war was fought. Similar reasons to be pissed. Read up and you won't find yourself having to ask questions that make you look like a fool.
I was born in NJ, so don't assume anything, genius.
I didn't read the thread, but I just figured I would jump in and say that to me, the Confederate flag represents slavery. The first thing that comes to my mind when I see it isn't the South being its own nation, but rather the oppression of a race.
This is because you're not aware of the FACT that the War Between the States was not fought over slavery. Slavery was supposed to be dealt with in 1820, according to the Constitution. We waited. The South didn't want to be a member of the Union. Lincoln offered to allow them to keep slaves to avoid war. The South refused. The Southern Flag represents a confederacy. Not slavery or oppression.
Lincoln wanted to send the blacks back to Africa.
Blacks sold blacks into slavery in Africa.
Whites, blacks, and Asians have used each other as slaves forever.
Do you think of oppression every time you see a black person wear the continent of Africa on them? Africans enslaved the blacks and whites bought them.
Native of New Jersey (Northern State)
We aren't obssesed. The South is the one that is obsessed because the war is over and still I see many people carrying that flag. The South does not have anything. The only real city of the South is Miami, and that is it. Other than that the South does not have anything to offer.
The South is booming financially. Your ignorance is painful. You make me embarrassed to be from NJ. Why are my Northern peers so freakin' stupid? Northerners are leaving the Northern States in droves to avoid oppressive taxes and regulations. This migration is enriching the Southern States. Wake up.
I disagree with you on that one. I don't see any difference in the Confederate Flag and the Swastika. Both born of hatred toward a race.
I think its a stubborn grasp on the part of those that still hold on to it, to show their blatant racism. I find it rather appaling when I see it whether its on someones car or in some other form.
Lincoln offered to allow slavery in exchange for avoiding war. The South simply wanted to leave the Union and Confederate. Unwash your brain.
It certainly piques my interest as well. I saw someone flying a Confederate flag off the back of their Jeep this summer here in suburban Massachusetts, and it was definitely something to comment about. And what I was wondering was, What is this person thinking?
Hmm, well when my daughter's college friends come to visit us, some of them have the flag decals on the back of their vehicles. I saw a few cars at Gillette stadium this weekend (Countryfest) that had them, too. An actual flag sighting would be rare, I agree.
Do you think of oppression every time you see a black person wear the continent of Africa on them? Africans enslaved the blacks and whites bought them.
If you see a Nazi flag, do you think of a German country which was in economic and political shambles and then emerged as a world super-power through almost sheer will...or do you think of the atrocities that were committed under that flag?
People are always going to see the worst part of things because it's always the bad parts people remember.
"According to Coski, the Saint Andrew's Cross had no special place in Southern iconography at the time, and if Miles had not been eager to conciliate the Southern Jews his flag would have used the traditional Latin, Saint George's Cross."
How dare anyone compare this flag with a swastika.
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