It wasn’t about slavery. It was about the rights of states versus a powerful Government having all the rights. Abraham Lincoln brought slavery into the forefront in order to get more Union troops to fight. The South was right...look at what is going on now....Mercy!!...the states lose more rights every day as the Federal government takes more. That Confederate flag represents freedom from government oppression...not slavery. My folks were dirt farmers. They owned no slaves but they fought for the Confederate States of America because they believed in the reason for succession. You can rip that flag from view but it will forever fly in my soul.
Secession.
My wife's folks were from northern Mississippi, no plantations there and no slaves either. Her grandmother's uncles fought at Shiloh and Corinth.