Wyrmshadow
Deity
Why am I not surprised that so many pople take the lowest common denominator when talking about history. How many of you are actually avid students of history? My guess is very few.
The Civil War was fought over states rights and economics. The complete abolishion of slavery was just a bonus at the end of the war. We'd like to think it was totally about freeing the slaves in our new-age touchy feely politically correct B.S. world but it wasn't. Lincoln couldn't care less about the slaves, he thought the country would be better off without them. What would have happened to the freed blacks had Licoln not been assasinated? I've read plans about the deportation back to Africa(Liberia) of all the freemen. The Emcancipation Procalmation did not free all the slaves, only the ones in Confederate Territory, not the slaves in the Border Staets! The Civil War was about the federal government trying to get rebel provinces back under its control, because those provinces had the idea that there were a few things that only they knew best, and didn't want to be told otherwise by anyone.
Now onto the flag. It is widely thought of as a symbol of states rights, but it has also gotten some bad marks because of its use among racist organisations like the KKK and other weirdos. Some of you mentioned before that the Swastika is an evil symbol. WRONG DUMMY. The swastika is a 4000 year old ancient Buddhist symbol for prosperity and peace. It is also found in many other cultures throuhgout the ages, was it evil then????? It became evil in the public eye because an evil organization used it as their prominet symbol and made it more famous that way. Had there been no KKK or similar organizations then there would only be the connotation of states rights. Yes, some use it as a racist symbol willingly, but those few are the ones that get the most TV time. If you're guilty of thinking ALL poeple that fly the Stars and Bars to be racist, then you must also beleive that anyone who prays towards Mecca is a crazy fundamentalist terrorist just because those are the characters that get the most TV time as well.
Now speaking as someone that actually lives in the South (Texas) and has friends that fly and even wear the flag I can tell you a few things. (Well the university doesn't let us display the flag in dorm windows and such because so many screaming liberals complain about it) The Southern White Male is a very independent creature that likes to keep to himself and expects everyone to mind their own business. That's is especially true about the federal government. Now the South is also very big on tradition and inheriting the thoughts of the older generation (very conservative minded) and some of those thoughts still come from the 19th century and the "War of Northern Agression". These thoughts are all about minding your own busisness and keeping the government out of your hair.
The flag is also about heritage. Many Southerners can proudly trace their roots to those that fought in the Civil War, fought for a cause (right or wrong) that they beleived in and may have died as a result. Is it so wrong to pay homage to your ancestors? It is also wrong to have a provincial way of thinking about things? If you said YES, then what makes YOU so damn right?
The Civil War was fought over states rights and economics. The complete abolishion of slavery was just a bonus at the end of the war. We'd like to think it was totally about freeing the slaves in our new-age touchy feely politically correct B.S. world but it wasn't. Lincoln couldn't care less about the slaves, he thought the country would be better off without them. What would have happened to the freed blacks had Licoln not been assasinated? I've read plans about the deportation back to Africa(Liberia) of all the freemen. The Emcancipation Procalmation did not free all the slaves, only the ones in Confederate Territory, not the slaves in the Border Staets! The Civil War was about the federal government trying to get rebel provinces back under its control, because those provinces had the idea that there were a few things that only they knew best, and didn't want to be told otherwise by anyone.
Now onto the flag. It is widely thought of as a symbol of states rights, but it has also gotten some bad marks because of its use among racist organisations like the KKK and other weirdos. Some of you mentioned before that the Swastika is an evil symbol. WRONG DUMMY. The swastika is a 4000 year old ancient Buddhist symbol for prosperity and peace. It is also found in many other cultures throuhgout the ages, was it evil then????? It became evil in the public eye because an evil organization used it as their prominet symbol and made it more famous that way. Had there been no KKK or similar organizations then there would only be the connotation of states rights. Yes, some use it as a racist symbol willingly, but those few are the ones that get the most TV time. If you're guilty of thinking ALL poeple that fly the Stars and Bars to be racist, then you must also beleive that anyone who prays towards Mecca is a crazy fundamentalist terrorist just because those are the characters that get the most TV time as well.
Now speaking as someone that actually lives in the South (Texas) and has friends that fly and even wear the flag I can tell you a few things. (Well the university doesn't let us display the flag in dorm windows and such because so many screaming liberals complain about it) The Southern White Male is a very independent creature that likes to keep to himself and expects everyone to mind their own business. That's is especially true about the federal government. Now the South is also very big on tradition and inheriting the thoughts of the older generation (very conservative minded) and some of those thoughts still come from the 19th century and the "War of Northern Agression". These thoughts are all about minding your own busisness and keeping the government out of your hair.
The flag is also about heritage. Many Southerners can proudly trace their roots to those that fought in the Civil War, fought for a cause (right or wrong) that they beleived in and may have died as a result. Is it so wrong to pay homage to your ancestors? It is also wrong to have a provincial way of thinking about things? If you said YES, then what makes YOU so damn right?
