There’s a lot more to the old South than slavery. About 2% of southerners owned slaves. Hundreds of thousands of poor southern farmers didn’t die fighting for slavery. States were big places, then, most people never going beyond their beloved Alabama, for instance. There was a lot of pride in one’s state. So, the question is, why do some people still feel “Confederate pride”? I think it’s less about the confederacy and more about “leave me the hell alone”. I used to wave the confederate battle flag. Today, I wave the gadsden flag.
I STILL don’t feel like going beyond my beloved Alabama...
RLTW