Still the value of that logic was plain for them to see for all of those years, and they have just now gotten it? Either their IQ's have just made a quantum leap (which I know is an impossibility), or else their music has lost its base (no pun intended).

It's actually more along the lines of once the war started many common people had no choice but to fight. Most of the people doing the fighting had no slaves, but they were for the most part willingly drug along by the ones that did. So the ones that weren't fighting to keep slavery going were fighting under a banner of keeping slavery going. Which is close enough.

Wow - only took - what? - 40 years to see that?

I am a long time fan. Thank you.

Yeah, they are a little slow on the uptake. And I had no idea they even used the confederate flag, I just hope they didn't desecrate it in anyway or conservatives would have their heads on a plate. I am glad they came around though kinda would like to know how that conversation came about. Wonder if it was anything like this one.

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"Are we the baddies?"

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We are one country. During the Civil War, we were a divided country. When we united again, the Southern states flew the US flag once again. To me, that makes the Confederate one the flag of an enemy combatant. Meaning anyone who flies that flag could be construed as someone who doesn't believe the Civil War ended. For them, it wasn't the Civil War, it was the "War of Northern Aggression."

Why don't they fly the US flag and that of their home state of Florida?

because the Stars and Bars are also acceptable substitute for the sacred Stars and Stripes according to the Conservative Patriotism Rules.

Fuck that; it's straight-up racist.