The Oh So Misunderstood Confederate Battle Flag

The Confederate Battle Flag represents all Southern, and even Northern, Confederates regardless of race or religion and is the symbol of less government, less taxes, and the right of the people to govern themselves. It is flown in memory and honor of our Confederate ancestors and veterans who willingly shed their blood for Southern independence.

A Short History Lesson Just as the War for American Independence of 1776, the War for Southern Independence of 1861 was fought over "taxation without representation." The North was constantly trying to raise taxes on Southerners through high tariffs on imported goods in order to protect the inefficient big businesses in the North. These big businesses could not compete with manufactured goods from England and France with whom the South traded cotton. The South did not have factories and had to import most finished products. The Industrial Revolution allowed England and France to produce and ship across the Atlantic products that were cheaper than the products of Northern manufacturers. When Lincoln was elected President, he and the U.S. Congress immediately passed the Morrill Tariff (the highest import tax in U.S. history), more than doubling the import tax rate from 20% to 47%. This tax served to bankrupt many Southerners. Though the Southern states represented only about 30% of the U.S. population, they paid 80% of the tariffs collected. Oppressive taxes, denial of the states' rights to govern their states, and an unrepresentative federal government pushed the Southern states to legally withdraw from the Union. Since the Southerners had escaped the tax by withdrawing from the Union, the only way the North could collect this oppressive tax was to invade the Confederate States and force them at gunpoint back into the Union. It was to collect this import tax to satisfy his Northern industrialist supporters that Abraham Lincoln invaded our South. Slavery was not the issue. Lincoln's war cost the lives of 600,000 Americans. The truth about the Confederate Flag is that it has nothing to do with racism or hate. The Civil War was not fought over slavery or racism.

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[tomitstube]

@AUG351 ~ it was confederate soldiers who formed the kkk. this flag is a symbol of southern racism. if it wasn't - segregation, lynchings, and jim crow discrimination wouldn't have lasted for another 100 years. that's what you call proof.

[AUG351]

@tomitstube People that don't understand or study proper history of the Civil War will continue to see it as kkk or racist but thats not what the flag was meant for and isn't what it means, the kkk just use it but thats not what the Confederate soldiers saw it as. It means to be separate from the Union, to have pride for the South, and to rebel against what they thought of as a tyranny. The soldiers themselves joined to fight because of their homes and many never owned slaves.

[tomitstube]

all i saw was the kkk.

[jakobmichaelcarson]

@RonPaulHatesBlacks I never said it was legal after the war fool. Your just an anti-south bigot. Take your multiple accounts and keep on trolling loser.

[RonPaulHatesBlacks]

@jakobmichaelcarson Slavery wasn't legal 70 years after the war. Slavery was illegal with passage of the 13th Amendment. That's why you oppose it, remember?

Blacks still suffered civil rights violations because the South was still full of sick racist assholes who we had to overcome with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That's why you oppose that Act, remember?

No black person in 1964 would have traded their life for the confederate alternative of neverending slavery.

[jakobmichaelcarson]

@mookins45 how come slavery was legal in the US for over seventy years then? How come over one hundred years after the civil war in the union blacks still had no civil rights? I think you need to set your little text books down and actually pick up some non-fictional literature.

[mookins45]

Slavery was the issue. The United States was founded on the principle that all men are created equal; the Confederacy was founded on the principle that they are not. Those words come from a speech made by the leading Confederate Founding Father- its Thomas Jefferson- at the inauguration of the new government. And look at the Confederate Constitution's detailed attention to the legal protocols of slavery.

[upinsmoke58]

it is in memory of all those who gave there lives for home nothing more ... they all are americans not foreigners or evil slavery or jealousy it is a sad chapter of history one we all should realize gave us what we have today a stonger federal govt. you decide is it good or bad , looking around today I wonder I truly do and in the modern america we have deeper problems than a flag . and as foot note the amicipation proclimation didnt free slaves in the north just the south ones no control over ?

[yamahabansheerider]

you need a BIGGER one! =D

[shiptech2k9]

God Save the South!