I'VE BEEN CURIOUS FOR YEARS NOW WHY PEOPLE KEEP THE REBEL, CIVIL WAR, SOUTHERN FLAG ALIVE AND WEAR IT LIKE A BADGE. I THOUGHT THAT WAS HISTORY AND WE WERE ALL AMERICANS AND ONE UNION. PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME. I'VE BEEN WONDERING THIS FOR 5 DECADES

Come to Florida. Theres a guy here flying a huge confederette flag as big and high as the law allows right off the highway. I dont get it either

because for some people it is tradition...and a redneck thing... my friends do it and its because they were raised with it

It's not about hate, it's about preserving your heritage and remembering what great great grandparents fought for and went through.

History glorifies the Union Army, but that's only because they won the war, victors write the history. And it's not really a redneck thing.

it has Nothing to do with Hate! Some People associate it with Slavery, but it has Nothing to do with Slavery. the South Considered themselves a Union of there own and Didn't want to be apart of the U.S.A. and I Don't Blame them.

Being from the south I'll try to answer...


It is a missed placed loyalty to a heritage they share....

Not so much a loyalty to "slavery", sadly in some cases that is the case but more so, it is a loyalty to what there ancestors did. The stories many grew up with was about revolution and standing up for their rights.....Now of course the thought of owning slaves is appalling to you and I but back then that is not how they felt. To them losing their slaves was a direct assault on their lively hoods, meaning they believed they could not feed their children and they fought for their rights.....As missed placed as theos right were.

I guess its one of those things that, you would need to walk in their shoes to truly understand it from their point of view...and as for today that still applies.

I hoped this helped

its not a racist thing at all but like bored said.. people associate it with slavery and racism.. i have a biracial daughter but i wear rebel flag stuff

i do beg to differ on that because i dont see any snooty people sporting it... it is all country people i am living out in the country as do all my redneck friends... it is more of a country redneck thing

I don't get it either. In my area it gives off KKK vibes.

it has nothing to do with that... like i said i wear the confederate flag sometimes and my oldest daughter is half black and the man that raised me that i call dad is black.. it is ignorance to associate it with the kkk.... those who hate it just dont understand it

That's how it is in my city. The black hating white trash guys put them in their windows. Thank goodness it doesn't happen alot.

Theres Just Some People out there Who go out of Their way to Be offended. and Ignorance of the Masses doesn't Help. Peeps Need to Lighten up, Life is Too Short For Petty BS.

i know that my best friends have them flying and they do not hate blacks nor are they white trash and that is quite rude to consider people white trash because they hang it... i take offense to that.... it is just stupid ignorant people who will say things like that

I am not talking about you like that. I am sorry that you are taking it that way.

I am talking about the select few that do it in my city. If you see these people you would understand. The city doesn't it like it here because of them. They are not displaying the flag in the same manner that you are.

You Know what Pisses Me off More than these Knotheads Displaying that Flag in Such a Way, is the Fact that They use the Symbols of my Religion in their Hate BS

I am not offended by southern states showing that flag.

The problem we have in my city are the type of people that are displaying it. They are not doing it out of respect for the flag.

I Hear Ya.

its not you hun... i take offense to people who hang it and try and make it a race thing when if it were a race thing i def. would not be hanging it. i used to live in mt vernon il. i know how st louis is... i just get aggravated at stupid people plus i dont feel well tonight so i am grouchy

I was confused to see the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia, the Southren Cross, being displayed in Ohio! This flag was originally square, the rectangular version we see most often today had a lighter blue cross & was a naval flag. The real CSA flag was similar to the US flag, the blue square had a circle of stars & there were 3 stripes red, white, red. It was called the Stars & Bars. The "Bonnie Blue Flag" was one of the flags of Texas & was also used as a battle flag. There is much confusion over "Confederate" flags.

I think the Southern Cross has different meaning to many people.

sorry to be so b*tchy tonight i am going to bed now... ttyl