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What does the confederate flag mean in modern times?

Being a southern redneck is not synonomous with being a racist. That label is way over used. Those that percieve it as racist are just wrong.

A hooded figure dressed in a sheet and burning a cross,.........That's a different story.😉
 
Well, being originally from the deep south, here's my take. The Confederate flag, to me, is a symbol of the old south. A quieter, simpler time, southern hospitality, real ladies and gentlemen. Granted slavery was a part of that time, but that is not what I think of when I see the flag.
 


<< Being a southern redneck is not synonomous with being a racist. That label is way over used. Those that percieve it as racist are just wrong.

A hooded figure dressed in a sheet and burning a cross,.........That's a different story.😉 >>


those aren't what "I" associate with it. that was a generalization of everyone...
 


<< Being a southern redneck is not synonomous with being a racist. That label is way over used. Those that percieve it as racist are just wrong. >>



i don't perceive it as racist because it has anything to do with being a southern redneck, i perceive it as racist because of the civil war (yes, i know, civil war wasn't about slavery, etc).
 
I know that when I see the Stars and Bars I think of a bunch of whiny liberals who get entirely too upset about a piece of cloth. As a born and bred Yank, I don't have the attachment to the Stars and Bars that many Southerners do, but I have to say that I have no problem with people who fly it. In fact, I'd even fly it myself just because I like to piss off the anti-free speech people who think that it shouldn't be flown. It's analogous to a situation in a town near my home. A small business owned by a German immigrant (1st generation immigrant) flew a German flag outside, next to the American flag. This was a current German flag (ie, non-NAZI) and it was flown at equal height to the American flag according to proper flag display custom. The town, largely Polish, forced the immigrant to take down the German flag because it was "offensive".
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As the saying goes, "The map is not the territory.".

ZV
 
Because those people still think their cause was just. It's hard to think that your ancestors fought and died for the wrong reasons, confederation instead of a union, slavery, etc. I don't think the US would become a predominant power as it is today if the southern states won their independence.
 
I have a t-shirt that nearly got me kicked out of school ahwile ago. What was it? A simple Confederate Battle Flag used to represent my Mississippian heritage.
 


<< I have a t-shirt that nearly got me kicked out of school ahwile ago. What was it? A simple Confederate Battle Flag used to represent my Mississippian heritage. >>



well they kick people out for having all different kinds of t-shirts...

btw, you could probably just wear a shirt with the mississippi state flag, and they wouldn't care.
 


<< Because those people still think their cause was just. >>

And you know this because ..... ?
I guess no one from a country that ever lost a war is allowed to fly a flag.
 


<< And you know this because >>



Because that's what those people always say 😉, of course I could be wrong and they are lying and they don't believe their cause was right and just. Of course, a lot of the people carry the Conferate flag to annoy all the liberals and blacks out there while they don't give a sh!t about "The Cause"
 
I have a Confederate battle flag hanging in my back window at home. I had it at work for a while back when South Carolina was getting the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson treatment over their flying one at their state capitol.

I'm a Pacific Northwesterner, not a Southerner. But I do hope to live in the South someday.

League of the South
 


<< I have a t-shirt that nearly got me kicked out of school ahwile ago. What was it? A simple Confederate Battle Flag used to represent my Mississippian heritage. >>



the heritage of slavery and lynchings. thats why people think you're a bigot.
 
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