[sheltonmac]

*ping*

[lilylangtree]

As a southerner living in the north, I understand. I guess we won't be seeing any more of Shirley Temple's "The Little Colonel" either unless one buys the movie.

[Red Badger]

It's a SOUTHERN THANG, Ya'll won't never unnerstand.......

[cripplecreek]

I'm a Michigan Yankee who doesn't have any problem with seeing southern heritage preserved.

[smoothsailing]

[ValenB4]

Nice article!

[stainlessbanner]

Great read Sheltonmac. Welcome to the United States of the Offended

[Right Cal Gal]

No kidding.
And where I come from (North Carolina), it was always called "the War of Northern Aggression."

[Restorer]

It is entirely possible to be proud of the valor and honor of the southern heritage while recognizing that the Confederacy was established to promote an evil ideology.

While the US was not perfect when established, with its unequal treatment of women and allowance of slavery, it did enshrine as a founding principle the essential equality of all men, and by implication women.

The Confederacy, OTOH, was based on a rejection of this principle.

[onyx]

BUMP and BOOKMARKED.
Nice posting.

[EagleMamaMT]

"But if there's anything worse than a Damn Yankee trying to tell a Southerner how to live or what to think, it's a gutless, guilt-ridden, self-destructive Southerner who has been made to feel ashamed of his heritage to the point where he plays an active role in its destruction."

Bears repeating again.

[southronbtgoG]

Be Prepared Boys,We ain't done yet....The Blue-Bellies just think we are..(just between us and the walls,,that's what we want them to think,,,what a plan!)
CSA

[MAWG]

INCOMING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I'm sure there's more to southern culture than the Confederate flag, segregation and slavery. Why not accentuate the positive?

[River_Wrangler]

It's amazing how quickly people forget. Secession was at one time viewed as an absolute right retained by the people of the various states, a fact undeniable since it was an act of secession that gave birth to our nation in the first place. Today, anyone who believes that states have a moral and constitutional right to secede is looked upon with the kind of disgust and contempt normally reserved for the criminally insane.Texas still has the right to secede. It was part of our agreement to remain in the union. Hmmm---food for thought.;>)

[Little Ray]

I would just like to point out that Georgia changed its state flag to distance itself from the desegragation fight of the 50's and 60's. The current state flag is almost a dead ringer for the First National, aka, the Stars and Bars!

[tet68]

Georgia changed its state flag in an effort to distance itself from its Confederate history.

Hold on now poss, Georgia didn't get a chance to vote on
it, it was again run rough shod over the choice of the people by our oh so thoughtful politicos.

[r9etb]

As a Louisiana native who is now living north of the Mason-Dixon Line, I am well aware of the concerted effort to erase Southern culture from the nation's collective consciousness. I have written numerous articles addressing this social cancer, and every time I do I inevitably hear from people who have the audacity to call me an extremist.

Well, I don't know about "extremist." Whack-job might be more accurate.... ;-)

[Ditto]

Secession was at one time viewed as an absolute right retained by the people of the various states, a fact undeniable since it was an act of secession that gave birth to our nation in the first place.

Without going into the circular argument on the Constitutionality of secession, and your gross overstatement about the prevailing views on secession in the early years of the Republic, PLEASE don't refer to the Patriots of 1776 as "secessionists"!

It is a complete disservice to their memory and the sacrifices they made.

They were Rebels and damn proud of it. They told the world exactly what they were rebelling against and why, they constructed no legal fictions that their revolution was somehow legal under British law, and they were fully prepared to meet the King's hangman if their revolution had failed.

If the Confederates truly thought they were facing oppression, they too should have proudly accepted the name Rebels, not legalism about secession.

The name "Rebel" is a very honorable term --- if the cause is just.

[109ACS]

In honor of my GreatGrandfather and GreatGrandUncle, both killed in service to their country.....

http://griffin.homeip.net/sacrifice.html