Star and Bars in Dixieland

Poll - Total Votes: 7

I own a Confederate flag and fly it high !

I own a Confederate and keep it indoors

I do not own one but I want one!

I do not own one nor do I want one

I find the flag offensive

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For the southerns that whistle Dixie why?

Do you fly the confederate flag in 2024 and if so why? We already have Old Glory.

If you say "heritage but not hate" what does that mean?

If you say perserve our way of life what are you trying to perserve and why?

Help us simpleton's (self included) undstand Star and Bars and Dixieland.

also don't tell us the obvious that it is below the Mason-Dixon line. Tell us the culture and what we are not getting.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

I'm a southerner but not a US one. But surely no one from a southern state who felt that the South was wronged in the civil war would fly the flag of the Federation. That would be like expecting a Scot who is still arguing about the Acts of Union to fly the Union Jack.

bijouxbroussard · F

@ninalanyon The only reason for the Confederate flag is because a percentage of U.S. citizens believed that fighting for the right to continue owning other human beings was a worthy cause.
The Confederacy was defeated, and no longer exists. Scotland is still its own nation.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@bijouxbroussard

Scotland is still its own nation.

Not really. No one on the outside of the UK deals with Scotland as a nation in its own right, not since the Act of Union (1706, 1707). It's only inside the UK that Scotland is regarded as a separate nation but in fact it is less separate from England than the individual states of the US are from each other.

robertsnj · 56-60, M

@bijouxbroussard

The only reason for the Confederate flag is because a percentage of U.S. citizens believed that fighting for the right to continue owning other human beings was a worthy cause.

that really sums up star and bars ---for you non Americans who wonder about stars and bars that is it-right to own human slaves. really good post

exexec · 61-69, C

The flag that most people find offensive is not the Stars and Bars, but the Confederate Battle Flag with the St. Andrews Cross containing stars. The Stars and Bars flag was the national flag that had a blue canton with stars and three stripes, two red and a white one in the center. I own a small battle flag because my family fought under it. Their reasons for fighting were their own, and some reasons were wrong.

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