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“The biggest problem is that the white supremacist idjits have hijacked the Confederate Battle Flag and linked it to Nazi beliefs. There used to be no problem with Confederate flags until those bozos came along and made it their symbol”

Did they ‘hijack’ it or did they pick it up out of the dirt? You ‘proud Confederates’ didn’t seem to be doing much with it anyway. I have a feeling that the Southern veterans would rather it be at war than sitting on the couch with you, while Southern culture is defamed and slowly dies.

I also find it hilarious that you blame the ‘idjits’ for the current PC atmosphere. Yeah, if they just wouldn’t rock the boat...then the media/left/gov/et al wouldn’t attack Southerners and their history, and then you could slink around with the Battle Flag without too many people caring. It must be the ‘idjits’ that control Hollywood/The media.

Did they ‘hijack’ it or did they pick it up out of the dirt? You ‘proud Confederates’ didn’t seem to be doing much with it anyway.

You've confused me with somebody else - I wouldn't say I was a "proud Confederate" - I don't identify myself as a "Confederate" in any way - it's a war that was fought several generations before my time - and as I said, the overwhelming majority of my family (including my direct ancestors) that lived in Texas during that time left Texas to fight for the Union. I am proud (as proud as one can be of one's ancestors that were in a war that was over long ago) that they did so, but that doesn't mean that I identify a certain way - I personally would identify myself as just another Texan long before I used a label like "Confederate" or "Union".

Hopefully it doesn't shatter your image of the South that many went and fought for the Union.

I also find it hilarious that you blame the ‘idjits’ for the current PC atmosphere. Yeah, if they just wouldn’t rock the boat...then the media/left/gov/et al wouldn’t attack Southerners and their history, and then you could slink around with the Battle Flag without too many people caring. It must be the ‘idjits’ that control Hollywood/The media.

Maybe it would be better to say that the idjit white supremacist types that wanted to make the Confederate Battle Flag their symbol were helped by the idjits in Hollywood who love visual symbols that play well in the newspapers and evening news and who love to say "see, because of these people, this symbol should be banned"?

As far as implying that I "slink around" with any kind of Confederate flags, the only Confederate-related flag that has graced any house I lived in was one that was captured by a relative who was dead for forty years before I was born. I was a child when it was donated to some little museum or society in Georgia, and unfortunately I was too young to recognize or care about the history behind it and the relatives who knew the history behind it are long dead. I couldn't even tell you where it was donated, that's how little of an impact it had on me (that and how young I was).