I reiterate Michelle Bachmann is a Dumb Ass!!

[knuckleboner]

Slavery was the main issue used by the South for the main argument for secession: states rights.

dude, total semantics. protecting the right to own slaves was a huge cause of the civil war. people from the south can still like the south. especially anybody born after 1874. but they do gotta realize that waving the confederate (battle) flag makes them dicks.

[BigBadBrian]

dude, total semantics. protecting the right to own slaves was a huge cause of the civil war. people from the south can still like the south. especially anybody born after 1874. but they do gotta realize that waving the confederate (battle) flag makes them dicks.

You're up there in the North and don't realize what the Confederate Battle Flag really means. You simply see things in black and white (no pun intended) and simply can't see things as others may see them. Your viewpoint of that flag is based of what you see on the State Run Media. Pathetic, really.

[Satan]

Ironic that the slogan "Heritrage not Hate" is used by the white separatist association "The League of the South".

[Blaze]

The Confederate flag should not be used nor flown by government entities. The flag should have been removed during reconstruction, but it was a symbolic gesture of a states rights. They at least could choose the flag flown.
I reiterate, The rebel flag has no place for use in today's southern legislation.
However, it is a part of our heritage, all of us in the south. I will state again, not all business people of the south were unmeritorious.

It was the capitalist that ran amok and "railroaded" the socialist society that plantation society is.

Though, BBB may not realize the true structure of a plantation society, he is correct. The Confederate flag had tears shed by both black and white.
Though by the time the war came to pass many people were in need of relief, there was a certain segment of the southern population that was punished for others immorality. If need be, I will go find my discourse written about the gravity of racialized and perpetual slavery.

[Blaze]

Plainly put, not all blacks of the confederate states came from a treacherous establishment. However, many did.