It is sad that so many who would call themselves "conservative" on this site actively defend treason.
As does Ann Coulter:
The Confederate battle flag today has nothing to do with race. It stands for a romantic image of a chivalric, honor-based culture that was driven down by the brute force of crass Yankee capitalism, which was better at manufacturing weapons than using them, and that shortly thereafter gave us the Grant administration and the Gilded Age. (We'll leave out trebling the average life span, ending chattel slavery, creating a world in which half the human race gets beaten up a whole lot less by the other half, and various other things that those money-grubbing followers of that awful Hobbes guy somehow accomplished despite caring only about making a buck.)
It stands for a proud military heritage shared by both blacks and whites in the South. The reverence for tradition and pride in historical antecedents are precisely what make Southerners, black and white, such stalwart patriots.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter020100.asp
No, what is sad is that you have flown under the radar for so many years and not been detected by the mods. Maybe we will just have to bring it to their attention a little more often.
The confederate flag is a symbol of treason
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Piss off damn yankee, it is a symbol of southern heritage. NS, is that you?