Oh for the Lord's sake! Haven't people anything better to do with their lives than to nit-pick and take affront over every little thing that they disagree with? Confederate battle flag purses being the latest object of a law suit - why not sue the Code Pink gals for wearing offensive T shirts, I could you know. Stupid is as Stupid does! Throw this out of court. Dumb, dumb, and dumber! GET A LIFE school officials - at least the girls showed some imagination when they returned with the bags marked "censored" - give them an A and fail the school board for being so politically correct.
Serious defenders of the legacy of the south argue persuasively in my opinion that the Confederates were the true defenders of the original vision the founders had for the nation. The northern mercantilists were more than willing to toss aside the strictures of limited government in general and the Constitution in particular in order to better service their own interests. And given the Leviathan state we face today it is hard to argue that the Confederates were not correct to oppose this.
There was a tension in the Republic from the beginning between those who believed in the benefits of collective authority and those who feared most its tendancy to devolve into tyranny. The right of secession proved to be the wedge issue that those favoring the supremacy of the state over the Constitution used successfully to decide the issue in their favor for both them and their posterity.
By destroying the legacy of the south and obfiscating the true nature of the War Between the States the left has robbed future generations of Americans (north and south) of an important part of their history. It is a vile irony indeed that the War between the States should now be seen exclusively as a war about the enslavement of the blacks when in fact it was a war over the true definition of freedom for white and black alike.