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Sorry for not responding sooner, but at Christmas a neighbor’s Pit Bull chased a momma cat and her kittens under my house, the dog tore up the cats, AND 6 feet of my heating/AC duct work and I have had to get contractors out to look, plus insurance folk involve, the Sheriffs department…been real fun!

Oh gosh George, the dialogue we have had, and probably continue to have would go on for a long time…with agreements and disagreements abounding!

In goring the South as you say, (I’ll kick Yankee butt latter) I find that there is too much “deifying” the Southerner, and equating them as being completely treated unfairly…playing up the role that they are victims throughout the period before, and during, and after the war. Folk tend to build up the South as this benevolent society that only wanted to be “Left alone”. The problem is your trying to build a house on a landfill.

No matter how the house is built, how the fence is laid out, the trees, shrubs, driveway, landscaping is done, the ground below is going to reek. The foundation is bad. The South was going to keep slavery, it seceded from the rest of the country to keep the institution alive. Sure you can throw in unfair tariffs, trade systems that funneled export funds to others than those in the South it should have benefited, but still slavery comes to the front. Throw in “States Rights” to cover a multitude of attitudes and beliefs, but always slavery will rear its ugly head. No thought for how future generations will judge them, or perceive them.

I don’t event try to mask over it any more.

In my other post, I alluded to the South bringing on destruction onto itself, than any imagined up-coming slave revolt would ever have. I guess I was talking about responsibility for choices and actions taken. I’m not so sure they would like knowing how many of the “Southern Heritage” try to pass them off onto others now. Southern leaders in the 1860s certainly weren't shy about being pro-slavery. I'd love to hear a debate between one of the old secession fire-eaters, and a Pro-Southern today on the importance of slavery to the war, circa 1861. It'd be like listening to a fire-eater debating a Yankee!

I know several examples of some folk here in Texas that make a big deal of flying the Battle Flag for the sake of anger and hate. Nothing for the benefit of their Confederate ancestry, just stick it to em. You can read various BB’s, and folk will telegraph their intentions. There was website once that talked of putting a big Flag up along I-20 in east Texas, and it talked of only showing it off to prove it could be done. Nothing about honoring Confederate Soldiers. They were asking for a huge sum of money. I took the web master to task about it… for some reason now the Flag idea is no longer there. I’m sure the person in question has a different story.

You don’t have to be clairvoyant to see thru the veil of deceit.

You would not be one I would worry about, and I feel assured that you are going to fly a Battle flag for the right reason. I’d back you up on it, but some others I won’t.

Kevin Dally

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