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I'm referring to why the soldiers and such were willing to fight. They had no slaves and never would, but they knew a meddling damnyankee when they saw one.




Quite fair.



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The flag is a little different since it so often waved by racists now: nobody in the South has negative views of the flag but it's used so much in negative ways, and bothers even reasonable blacks enough, that it's often not worth it.



Yeah. The battle flag was hijacked by racists and the segregation movement, and thus has racial connotations. The ancient symbol of the sun, the swastika, was ruined by the Nazis.

It's especially sad since the leader of the army who flew it, Robert E. Lee, had an admirable post-war racial record, and it's greatest hero [my opinion], Stonewall Jackson, had an unusually good racial record for his time before the war.
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