06-24-2015, 12:32 PM
(06-24-2015, 11:36 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Thanks for the clarification. Forgot that "stars and bars" is used for the actual Confederate Flag. I understand that most Southerners could not afford to own slaves and that they incorrectly believed the Union was the aggressor, but that really doesn't excuse them. It's really not different from the "just following orders" excuse for Nazis. I mean... they believed the Jews were to blame for their economic woes...
The fact that they couldn't afford slaves doesn't mean that they didn't aspire to one day be able to buy a few of them.
