Posted by Socrates in "Civil War", Confederate flag, Socrates, Southern heritage, Southern man, The South at 9:27 am | Permanent Link
The Confederate flag isn’t even about race. The flag doesn’t symbolize racism and slavery. It symbolizes, believe it or not, freedom. The South seceded because the North was oppressing the southern states, largely via high tariffs [1]. Slavery was, in fact, on its way out when the wrongly-named “Civil War” occurred. The flag flap is […]