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Why Southerners that the Confederate flag is a symbol of heritage?

Just do not understand the flag of the Confederacy general be put in some people's homes and government buildings in the South. It is undoubtedly linked to slavery and racism. So why Southerners continue to defend and support it? I've heard the argument of heredity, but regardless, it is logical for secession, racism, old-world thinking. I know there are Southerners that are not compatible with the flag, but why do some still support it?

"It is undoubtedly associated with slavery and racism." In his mind is. Although people under the fact that some people claim it is not slavery, I would say that the link to them is dubious at best. Yes, the South had slaves. No, not all relics of the South is linked to slavery. No more than any device is connected to North defrauding the Native American lands grain or small pox ridden blankets or all aspects of California culture is linked to the construction of railways in China. "So why what Southerners continue to defend and support? I've heard the argument of heredity, but regardless, representing the secession, racism, the thought of old world. "This is the classic logical fallacy of" begging the question, "ie, the proposition to be tested (which is slavery and racism) is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises (his). He asked people what it was they, he said, and then ignored his response and is implicitly that his own view was still correct. If you really want to understand this, YOU CAN NOT IGNORE WHAT THE "OPPOSITION" It tells you your opinions. For many, it means no such thing as slavery. I am one. I grew up in Middle Tennessee, went to school in Alabama, and moved to Texas as an adult. I've spent my life in the south. I dug the metal detected and Civil War artifacts, U.S. and CSA both. I've played up and on farms in the footsteps of the old slave cabins when I was too young to even know what they were. His ancestors on both sides of the war, though my ancestors were dirt poor Southern farmers who never had a single slave. They were fighting for the rights of states, not only of slavery. They had nothing to gain from slavery. However, they fought and died in South. What happened in the South with slavery was a horrible parody of human rights at all levels, but the South (and war) was much further that one, more simplified, boiled down the explanation. I think it's a big difference. People who see the flag as racist tend to think mainly in the Old South a racist, slavery-oriented terms. Those thing that the flag of rebellion or property in the South think very different and far more varied levels. Slavery was one aspect, but one of many and not even look bigger or more important. Most who see it as only legacy see slavery as the most visible from a deeper difference in rural and urban cultures and disgust for the wealthy, distant legislators telling them what they can and can not do (to the Revolution Americana). However, I find the flag offensive, unless used to offend people certainly many do. Yes, the flag represents the secession one way, while there was a phrase such as rebellion. And many still do not think either are a bad thing. (Look, I am glad that the North won, would not be in any closer to where we are or not. However, as a libertarian, I think the idea of forcing the secessionist states in the Union to remain strange, at best, and the offensive aggressive at worst. We fought a revolution to get rid of a country, but when some of us tried to escape has been a bad thing?) A lot of southerners more educated use the Stars and Stripes to show wealth. Shows the same, but without much controversy, and has not been used continuously for a century for greater depreciation of reputation. Try looking this way … Take you a symbol of love and I think if anyone would find offensive (whether you agree with your point of view or not). Then justify your defense of it. Say you are a patriot and find nothing offensive about the U.S. flag, eg. However, I dare say that many people around the world do. If you or us all stop flying this? Let's say you have a Malcolm X shirt that you like. Do not you think some people may offended by it? Should not be allowed to wear? A shirt of Che Guevara? For or against signing the abortion? A hat with the word "bad" in it? The Fahrenheit 9 / 11 or Bowling for Columbine DVD in your movie collection? baggy pants? Gang colors? Council Piercings? The religious iconography of any type? A police uniform? Etc. Etc. Why people do or should continue to support any of these things, knowing that others find offensive?

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