[Belial]

I don't think that's true, and I don't doubt that many who fly the Stars and Bars are intelligent, and do so with liberty and equality as guiding principles.

The problem that I see is that this emblem arose from one of the great moral struggles of its day, in which Southerners were on the wrong side. Better to have fewer rights delegated to states, and no slaves.

[Howlin]

Don't be obtuse. Even Lincoln didn't want to free the slaves.

[ableChair]

I would agree with you that some of them are, but most of the ones I've met are not too bright. I can respect (though I may disagree) a philosophical argument in which one claims respect for the CSA based on states rights, but most of the affection I see for the confederate flag is mindless 'nationalism' (or regionalism). I do know *some* people who make eloquent and convincing arguments for more states rights, in defense of the southern cause. But my father was a B-52 pilot in Vietnam, my grandfather a G.I. at Normandy. I'm an American. Period.