Confederate or Union?
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Even though I live in the south, I would have been on the Union side.  I don't believe one person can "own and sell" another person.
508754
The thing that gets me is that the Union flag (U.S. flag) was used at a time when blacks were slaves in the North too. George Washington himself owned many slaves under the colonial flag. I don't hear black people complaining about that! I think blacks look for a good excuse to look for something to protest about anything. The real reason the Civil War was fought was over the issue of states rights NOT over slavery as many believe. The Confederate flag stands for the South and the South is no more guilty of slavery than the Union flag.
556203
I'd say it would look a lot like the Confederate States of America; a Christian theoccracy with inherent racism, sprawling suburbia, huge SUVs everywhere, and a cultural wasteland.\n\nKinda Puritan, but with southern accents.
357602
People in Georgia are proved of our family history. The confederacy stand for state the want to fight for the state rights. We get mad about people who do not know what the confederacy is about. If you are talk about the old Georgia flag issue then we was mad for change a flag for a small group of people did not like it.
999647
Most Southern people I know fly the confederate flag because to them it symbolizes the south and their heritage as their relatives served in the Civil War.  Most really don't look at it as a flag of oppression and slavery.  I don't think they view it that way at all.  For many years you never heard a word about this until blacks made an issue of it.  It was the war between the states and many good people including black people on both sides lost their lives.
329043
KKK is a good start and the NEO_CON"s are another, Skinheads are another, Confederates are another. Republicans in general. It is legal Racism of the rights's Christian Church, they do it in the name of God.
589897
Confederate Flag was part of American history. Duh
214098
A confederate is usually someone who participates in a psychological experiment, but is employed by the experimenter to implement some deception.  For instance, in Asch famous conformity experiment, he had different numbers of confederates express incorrect answers to simple questions to see how willing a participant would be to conform and give the incorrect answer.
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LOL\nI'm from the south and I don't even know which I belong to. You could always go or call up your community center to find out.\nGood luck.\nPeace.
569423
No.  The Confederates started it.
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History in US has become too Politically Correct- and that is the problem.\nI also know the facts about the War of Secession, and it is indeed as you describe it.\nAnother hushed up fact is that 160 000 blacks served in the Confederate Army, most of them as free men and volunteers, about half of them as normal, armed, frontline troops. To make things even funnier, they served in integrated units alongside white men- while the Norhtern armies were segregated.\nAbout 6% of the men in "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg were black.\n\nAnd yes, this information is pretty hard to find. Also any information about the Islamic conquest of Christian lands- which led to the Crusades. But plenty of "history" on how the evil crusaders attacked the peace loving muslims. Also next to nothing about the Mongol invasions of Christian and Muslim lands.\n\nWhy is it done so? you might ask the same about mass media coverage of the Iraq war. \nJust too many busybodies with an agenda lying- that's my idea.
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Yes it's dumb! We live in the United States of America not the Confederate States of America. It would be like flying a Japanese flag outside our windows the day after the tragedy at pearl harbor happened.
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There are several books on this subject.  Also, check out www.kennedytwins.com for all sorts of links and listings on the Confederacy.
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Tenn was the last state to secede.\nVP for Abe Lincoln was a Tennessee man, Andrew Johnson.\n\nTenn was also the first to rejoin the Union.
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There is a new movie out right now about this: CSA.  It is a documentary about life in the US after the South wins, and defeats the North, so that the whole country is run by the South (rather than having two separate countries, a different scenario of a Southern victory.)\n\nThe premise of the movie is that the differences would be surprisingly small.\n\nIt is hard to know how things would be now.  Perhaps of the CSA had been a separate country, it would have faced an eventual and successful slave revolt (funded and supported by the remains of the Republican party in the North) and the CSA would be known as New Uhuru, or something.
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Jefferson Davis-Kentucky, President of CSA\nand\nAbraham Lincoln-also of Kentucky, President of USA\nboth during the Civil War
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Go to the website www.usflag.org\n\nKeep in mind that we were not the US as we are today. The Civil War was\nabout northerners and southerners. Therefor the south was the confederate flag, and norhterners were the stars and stripes. Keep in mind the flag for the north was too similar to the confederate.  The union flag was two red stripes seperated by one white stripe. There were seven stars representing the seven northern states.\nThe confederate or known as the Confederate Battle Flag consisted of eleven stars inside the two bars making an "X"  the 11 stars represented the 11 confederate states including Kentucky and Missouri.\nIt is not until after the civil war did we adopt the flag that we know to day. give or take the stars which represent  the 51states.