Confederate Flag

What does Confederate Rebel Flag means to you?

  • A symbol of Civil War History

    Votes: 41 25.8%

  • A symbol of racist

    Votes: 44 27.7%

  • A symbol of Heritage (Civil War Veteran Generation)

    Votes: 60 37.7%

  • Others - please specify

    Votes: 14 8.8%
  • Total voters
    159
rockdrummer said:
I am the last person that would support anything to do with racism. I have zero tolerance for it. Perhaps the problem lies in our respective understanding of what heritage means. I go by the definition here which I still stand by when I say there is a lot of heritage behind this and all of the flags used in the USA throughout history. It just so happens that the flag in question was in use at the time of slavery and that may be where the negative association comes from. One could argue that any flag used during the time of slavery would carry negative memories. That doesn't mean there is no heritage behind it. For the record I totally am against anything remotely resembling racism, bigotry, prejudice or stereotyping.
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I totaly respect your opnion. I didnt' think you are racisit. Like I said.....agree to disagree. That's the joy of living in a free country. :cool:
 
A Child Of The South

:DI also want to note that I just learned that my stepdad is the very distant cousin of General Lee.

Maybe we are cousins? My anncestry is that too. I voted for history.
My moms family and dads family all from Georgia! Can't get more
southern than that. The joke in my family is that I went and married
a Yankee! My husband is from Illinois! They love and accept them
but think he is eccentric. Definition: If you are strange and
people don't like you than you are "insane". If you are strange
and people like you then you are "eccentric" hahaha
 
fredfam1 said:
:DI also want to note that I just learned that my stepdad is the very distant cousin of General Lee.

Maybe we are cousins? My anncestry is that too. I voted for history.
My moms family and dads family all from Georgia! Can't get more
southern than that. The joke in my family is that I went and married
a Yankee! My husband is from Illinois! They love and accept them
but think he is eccentric. Definition: If you are strange and
people don't like you than you are "insane". If you are strange
and people like you then you are "eccentric" hahaha
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Really...........I'm from Illinois. We don't call ourselves Yankee!!! lol We are Midwesterners.(Spent a lot of time in cut off shorts and tank tops on my uncle's farm riding bare back!! LOL) Now that I'm in Florida everyone here calls me a Yankee and looks at me like I'm the Devil's spawn.(ok I might be some days!!) I think it shouldn't matter. We are all Americans. One nation under God!
 
Schermy said:
Really...........I'm from Illinois. We don't call ourselves Yankee!!! lol We are Midwesterners.(Spent a lot of time in cut off shorts and tank tops on my uncle's farm riding bare back!! LOL) Now that I'm in Florida everyone here calls me a Yankee and looks at me like I'm the Devil's spawn.(ok I might be some days!!) I think it shouldn't matter. We are all Americans. One nation under God!
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I know what you mean about "Yankee". I'm from Connecticut, so I'm definitely a "Yankee". My husband is from Michigan, so he's a Midwesterner. Our daughter was born in Pensacola, FL. That puts her in an awkward spot. Florida is located in the South but Floridians are not generally Southerners, EXCEPT for the Panhandle Floridians (which includes Pensacola) because they are more like people from Alabama, which makes them Southerners! :lol:

Now we live in South Carolina, so we are carpetbaggers, ha, ha.
 
Reba said:
I know what you mean about "Yankee". I'm from Connecticut, so I'm definitely a "Yankee". My husband is from Michigan, so he's a Midwesterner. Our daughter was born in Pensacola, FL. That puts her in an awkward spot. Florida is located in the South but Floridians are not generally Southerners, EXCEPT for the Panhandle Floridians (which includes Pensacola) because they are more like people from Alabama, which makes them Southerners! :lol:

Now we live in South Carolina, so we are carpetbaggers, ha, ha.
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HA that is a jumble of states. I live in Polk County Florida and I gotta tell you, it's very "southern" here. I've never seen so many trucks with lift kits and gators stickers in the back window!!!
 
Schermy said:
HA that is a jumble of states. I live in Polk County Florida and I gotta tell you, it's very "southern" here. I've never seen so many trucks with lift kits and gators stickers in the back window!!!
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:rofl:
 
It's better to be a blue belly than a yellow belly... LOL.. Just kidding people... *Ducking
 
Correction

My husband says HE is not from Illinois only his family is.(YANKEE STOCK)
He was born and raised in California so I don't know what that
makes him. What are you when your raised in the red woods?
Do you have any Millers or Frederics, or Wagners in your
geneology? That is who I am researching.
 
I believe it's a symbol of heritage. Some historians feel that "The American Civil War" is inaccurate. As for the historians' views, It should be re-named either "The War for Southern Independence" and "The War of Northern Aggression." A civil war is a conflict in which two or more factions fight for control of a nation's government. Southern states were not trying to take over the US government; they wanted to declare themselves independent. Southern soldiers often compared the South's struggle against the US government to the colonies' struggle against Britain. The Civil War wasn't launched to free the slaves. The majority of the South did not own slavery. The Cherokees supported the Confederacy. The Confederacy even promised them their own state, not a mere federal reservation. The Copperheads (Peace Democrats) opposed the Civil war and criticized Lincoln harshly. My understanding is Lincoln's goal was to keep the Union together and his view on slavery issue was moderate. Though, it is one of the most complex and controversial wars to discuss it.
 
Barbaro said:
I believe it's a symbol of heritage. Some historians feel that "The American Civil War" is inaccurate. As for the historians' views, It should be re-named either "The War for Southern Independence" and "The War of Northern Aggression."
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The natives here in South Carolina call it the war of Northern (or Yankee) aggression, or "the latest unpleasantness". :D Sometimes they call it the war between the states. But they don't normally call it the civil war.
 
Reba said:
The natives here in South Carolina call it the war of Northern (or Yankee) aggression, or "the latest unpleasantness". :D Sometimes they call it the war between the states. But they don't normally call it the civil war.
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When it comes down to it, there's nothing "civil" about war anyway.
 
Reba said:
The natives here in South Carolina call it the war of Northern (or Yankee) aggression, or "the latest unpleasantness". :D Sometimes they call it the war between the states. But they don't normally call it the civil war.
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Yep!

It's like World War I & II. World War I was also called the "Great War". When they began World War II, they then called the previous war "The First Great War" or "The First World War".

Today, there are a lot of different interpretations of the recent wars such as Cold War and the War on Terrorism. The Cold War could be "World War III" and the War on Terrorism could be "World War IV". Of course, that might not happen... or it could happen years later when history is written.
 
Reba said:
The natives here in South Carolina call it the war of Northern (or Yankee) aggression, or "the latest unpleasantness". :D Sometimes they call it the war between the states. But they don't normally call it the civil war.
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:laugh2: I like "the latest unpleasantness."
 
I suppose the Confederate flag could be seen as a symbol of Southern hertiage. However, It's not one that I'm proud of and I'm a lifelong southerner. I do love many things about the South - especially country ham with buttermilk biscuits. *lick*
 
deafskeptic said:
I suppose the Confederate flag could be seen as a symbol of Southern hertiage. However, It's not one that I'm proud of and I'm a lifelong southerner. I do love many things about the South - especially country ham with buttermilk biscuits. *lick*
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What about the inevitable grits? lol...
 
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