"Mississippi"

Oh boy LOL

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dont have a pic up? ur ugly.

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It's also pretty much the redneck emblem. You know the world is fucked when you see the confederate flag in WI pretty much anyplace.

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It's an extremely simplistic outlook on the American Civil War to be honest - the kind of version you'd get in your high school US history class.  Slavery was indeed a big issue and as such, it acted as a trigger issue, but other issues were involved - northern economic exploitation of the south, the south's irrelevance in nationwide elections (Lincoln won without a single southern state voting for him), the south's belief that the north had abandoned its roots, etc.  

Moreover, we should not forget how the south saw abolitionism.  Southerners, whom the majority didn't even own any slaves, detested abolitionism primarily because they believed it advocated a giant slave rebellion.  If you look at the Nat Turner slave rebellion, you'll notice many southern individuals were killed.  This is what southerners thought abolitionism to be and thus they saw it as a direct threat against them, whether slave owner or not.  When John Brown attempted to raise a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry in 1859, it very much confirmed the south's thoughts on abolitionists.  When Lincoln was elected, almost everyone in the south perceived him as an abolitionist as well who would give no help in a slave rebellion and perhaps even encourage one.  In other words, they felt threatened under Lincoln.

Granted, such presumptions about Lincoln were more myth than fact.  Lincoln had absolutely no goal of freeing any slaves - he simply just didn't want slavery expanded into the west.  But given the state of affairs during the American Civil War, he found it useful to announce the Emancipation Proclamation after the Battle of Antietam, which would essentially keep the British and French from interfering against the north and also gain the abolitionists' support against the south.  In other words, it was more of a political move than anything else.  Painting Lincoln as essentially an abolitionist or always wanting to free all slaves is quite wrong - it's the same mistake the south made.

But when I see it I just wonder if the person is really saying they're from the South or if they are trying to tell people of other races to GTFO. I tend to give ppl with that flag a wide berth and look the other way unless they show some other way that they're cool.

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"Everyone helpin' each other whenever they can we makin' it happen, from nothin' to somethin'
That's how we be survivin'" - BEP

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It's pretty simple. People perceive it as a symbol of racism for they often see the American Civil War as a war over slavery, where the Confederacy seceded in an attempt to keep it.

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So if I don't know ahead of time what the guy with the flag has in mind I just give him a really wide berth just in case, unless I know the guy or I have a chance to talk to him and he turns out to be cool.

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"Everyone helpin' each other whenever they can we makin' it happen, from nothin' to somethin'
That's how we be survivin'" - BEP

However, I am wondering why your name is WhiteTrashLilDarling. You are embracing your roots by calling yourself white trash? It sounds more like you are disrespecting yourself and your heritage.

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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They
are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." -Jefferson

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I can't explain why people hate the Confederate flag, I myself like it, for that is my heritage too.

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Well for me thats not really the reason. The reason I would see as symbol of racism is I have seen it used often by some racist groups.

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True enough, though it's an obvious stereotype.  After all, when we hang our American flags up for the 4th of July, do we agree 100% with those who wave their American flags up when they cry down with gays, liberals are traitors, and yes for Bush?  Obviously not - that's a blatant stereotype and anyone who makes the assumption that the Confederate flag = racist based on racist groups waving the flag is knowledgeable of this.  Hence why ultimately they draw back onto the American Civil War to justify their perception of the flag.

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Quote: from Forgot My Name at 9:14 pm on July 2, 2009

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I can't explain why people hate the Confederate flag, I myself like it, for that is my heritage too.

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Why is it your "heritage" if you are from Michigan? Do you have ancestors from the South?

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