People don’t think Southerners should be able to honor their heritage but most of them are simply misguided.
The War of Northern Aggression was, mostly, about taxes and control. The slavery issue was a sideshow IMO.
As far as Dem vs Rebuplican on the issue, we can look to somewhat more recent history - and LBJ's infamous quote.
This topic is about the Confederacy.
People should read the entire linked article. They would see that the war was to preserve something called the “Union,” even when an entire region wanted out. No wonder Baraq Hussein Obama admires old Abe Lincoln. If the North really cared about the rights of nonwhite people, then why did noted Union generals like Custer and Sheridan, having finished off Southern self-determination and States’ rights, devote the remainder of their careers to genocidal warfare against Indians? (At least the Sioux rid us of the boastful scum which was Custer).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsHTmHSqQEg
William Tecumseh Sherman-—like a dose of salts through Georgia!
Reb genny goes north to cut off his supply line, masterminding the situation, so Sherman decides,
“We’ll just kill and eat everything we see.”
And South Carolina — where it remains a legal State Holiday