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Freethinker, you are too narrow minded to look outside the common idiotic views of Confederate regailia. No argument here that to people like you, it stands for hate. Just because you are born in the South doesnt make you an expert on the general feeling of all Southerners, this statement is directed toward your comment that at one time you understood that the "stars and bars" stood for heritage, and not hate.
Moreso, you dont understand the history and feeling of Old South. Old South is a formal that was spawned by the men of the Order in celebration of the post war feeling of the "New South" in an attempt to preserve the honor and heritage which was the "Old South". Imagine if you will the time period that Old South blossomed. It came to be right around the time that "Gone With the Wind" was released. This movie sparked the young men of the South to have a celebration honoring the feeling of the Lost Cause and the true Southern Gentleman. Confederate regailia and hoop dresses are just symbols of that time period. Often they are confused with pure hate, but this is not so. They themselves serve as regalia for a sort of travel back in time.
Ive never given my view on the War here on this board, but by hell, Im going to now.
The beautiful world of grace and honor, wich was the Old South, came to be destroyed by a brutal war, an unavoidabble war with the materialistic North. The War came as a diffrence of opinion between the two sections in regard to the limitations of the federal government. It arose as a contest between the ideas of cetralization and states rights. When the South seceeded, it vindicated the Constitution, which had guaranteed the right of secession. But also the Civil War came as an attempt by unprincipled Northern men, spurred on by ambition and greed, to subjugate and bring havoc on the South. No need for a argument concerning the Civil War here was needed, but for the sake of the argument as a whole, I wanted my opinion stated.
Its chivalry, grace, and honor man. Not hate, rape, and destruction. Its a celebration of who we were, never forgetting who we are now. You think we are all these back woods hillbillies that think that if the South would have won we would have had it made. This just isnt so.
When you begin to turn you back on who you are and where you come from, your nothing but a petty, vain, uneducated, and narrow minded.
You wanted your educated comment, there you go. Now go crawl back under your keyboard and draw more sterotypical conclusions about sorority women, since that seems to be the subject of your next article.
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