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When you see this Symbol, what comes to mind? What are your first thoughts? Why do you think that? Please stay on topic.. and no Personal Attacks, keep this about the symbol and not about the person responding.
When i see that flag i remember the stubborn perserverence of all my family that lives in the south. My cousins who work in the tobacco fields in North Carolina or who lay bricks or are firemen or police officers. Every one of them owns the flag and they all fly it in front of their homes. It makes me think that no matter how much the south has changed (for the better i might add), the stubborn perseverance of southerners will stay the same.
Oh, and for those who say its racist, remember the flag which flew over the first slave laden boat sailing for the United States?
god forbid anyone make the same comparison
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actually, there are many who feel that the founding father's started the nation with a stain, when they did not have the courage to end the practice from the beginning.
I see it as divisive. There should be one flag that represents southern pride and that's the flag of the United States of America. I do not see the reason to have the confederate flag except for confederate cemetaries and civil war reanactments. Did the south not lose the civil war? Do the victors not set the terms?
It seems the North won the war, the south won the peace.
actually, there are many who feel that the founding father's started the nation with a stain, when they did not have the courage to end the practice from the beginning.
they tried, and had to make a compromise. The compromise was the 3/5ths statement, this allowed the north to get the amount of delegates it needed to eventually end the barbaric practice, if they put the slaves as 1 full person in the constitution then the south would always have the delegates it needed, thus more power in government to hold on to such Barbary
When you see this Symbol, what comes to mind? What are your first thoughts? Why do you think that? Please stay on topic.. and no Personal Attacks, keep this about the symbol and not about the person responding.
Biggest bunch of LOSERS this country ever created. Also a group of people especially the military leaders who broke their oaths to their country and were traitors who by rights should have been hung. In modern day usage more the symbol of the American Nazi Party.
The first that comes to mind is that on any given day, you can still watch "The Dukes Of Hazzard" on cable television.
Haha, I was thinking Dukes of Hazzard as well or specifically how the General Lee was going to out run Boss Hoggs men again Being born and raised in CA I don't have too much exposure to the south, other than watching one too many episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard growing up.
When you see this Symbol, what comes to mind? What are your first thoughts? Why do you think that? Please stay on topic.. and no Personal Attacks, keep this about the symbol and not about the person responding.
they tried, and had to make a compromise. The compromise was the 3/5ths statement, this allowed the north to get the amount of delegates it needed to eventually end the barbaric practice, if they put the slaves as 1 full person in the constitution then the south would always have the delegates it needed, thus more power in government to hold on to such Barbary
all well and good, however the founding fathers were from the north and south, so no matter how you slice it, saying people were only 3/5 people, keeping slavery alive and well was an act of cowardice and it is an historical stain on the good works of those involved
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Being born and raised in CA I don't have too much exposure to the south, other than watching one too many episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard growing up.
