Thank you, Jugstopper and Jimbo57. I teach American History, and you are both absolutely correct. In fact, in 1850 a South Carolina planter named Edward B. Bryan wrote a song called “Give Us Slavery, or Give us Death”. Mississippi considered slavery “the bedrock of American civilization”.

It was only after the Civil War that the South began to change their tune from slavery to states rights. Unfortunately, most Northern historians offered little opposition as neo-Confederates rewrote the past.

That is very good jugstopper. So can you explain why Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New York kept their slaves for several years after the civil war. Probably not.

I just can’t believe the stupidity. All of you MORONS who think the Civil War wasn’t about slavery need to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Faux News! Are you people for real, or is your head really that far up your ass? Fucking stupid, revisionist historians. You’re the baggers wet fucking dream … stupid dumbass hillbilly ‘Mericans who don’t know whether to wind their butt or scratch their watch. Fuck!!!! ‘Merica is doomed, I swear to God.

My focus was on that creepy cowboy lookin thing. Not that damn flag! Id rather stare at that peice of shit house than listen to that dumb bitch speak another word! K.. Rant over!

Not a single slave was brought to the south under this flag. I live in the south and I have seen a lot of racism but mostly because of people who are racist themselves. Those are the people who complain mostly about the flag. At OLE MISS the flag was banned from all games and the mascot was changed because of a few racists thought it was offensive but those symbols had been in place at that school for years. All of the African-Americans I live around or am friends with wanted to keep it the way it was and now because it changed no longer respect the college.

My Brother-in-law Is Married To A Sweet Black Woman. We All Live In The Same House. I Have My Confederate Flag In My Window!!! Watch This Video!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvSg0buZiTk

To all you armchair historians and part time Constitutional scholars up in here saying “Oh, the Civil War wasn’t about SLAVERY” and “the Confederacy wasn’t RACIST”, just Google the Cornerstone Speech:

“Our new Government is founded, its cornerstone rests, upon the opposite idea, that the Negro is a natural inferior, that subjugation and slavery are his natural condition”

Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, 1861

Argue that flag isn’t about racism, all you want. You cannot deny one thing it is about is TREASON.

@ Silver Turtle: I can understand how you feel. I wonder how many of our northern First Nations tribe feel about the good old Maple Leaf …

To Northern Girl: I, being a proud member of the “First Nations” [albeit a tribe found mostly in the US], find that the US Flag is a symbol of oppression.

Jugstopper: You are entitled to your opinion, however: All South Carolina did was assert its 10th Amendment right to self-government, without interference from the Federal Government. In fact, the Constitution of the Confederate States had a clause that basically stated that slavery was confined to ONLY THOSE STATES THAT CURRENTLY ALLOWED SLAVERY. Any other states that joined afterwards, or were absorbed through conflict were BARRED from establishing slavery. All the slaves had to do was cease procreation and slavery would have died out, although gradually, as the CSA constitution, in the same clause, ended importation of slaves.

I see the Confederate flag as a symbol of struggle against oppressive, unconstitutional acts by the Federal Government.

Gee, kind of like what we’re going through now. . .