Do You Relate to "Confederate Flag"?

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(07-07-2015, 10:59 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: I'm sure you could find many images of the kkk displaying the battle flag. However, you can find just as many images of them displaying the American flag, maybe even more so. They're a group ( I do not support or condone In any way ) that is proud of America, not just the south.

I can relate with the battle flag but for different reasons than heritage. To sum the civil war up as a war about slavery under values the many aspects besides slavery that led to the conflict. Not to mention, even before recent events, the reason(s) for the war have not been settled by an historian worth ( his ) salt and since its end has been the topic of many-a-debate. It's just not as simple as slavery despite what some want us to believe.

The problem with trying to argue "states' rights" is that it's a state's right to abolish federal laws that restricted slavery in some form or a territory's right to have slavery. The problem with trying to argue and "economic factors" is that it was an argument over how the South's economy would not survive without slavery.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/01/why-do-people-believe-myths-about-the-confederacy-because-our-textbooks-and-monuments-are-wrong/

Reality of the Civil War has been completely distorted by Southern sympathizers. You have states that overwhelmingly supported the Union littered with Confederate monuments and only have a handful of Union ones. Textbooks openly lie about reasons for secession, even when the declarations themselves stated that slavery was the primary reason.