Alpha,
You make a good case. But I feel I should add something. The Confederate battle flag is a rip off of the Scottish flag, St. Andrews Cross. My thoughts on that are a different matter. Most people in the south fought for the right for states to do what ever they want. That is why they joined. The issue of slavery was important to the upper circles of the state governments, but most people fighting the war, includeing most generals, where led to believe they were fighting sort of a second war of independance.
To KA BillyMac, don't take this the wrong way, but Robert E. Lee was going to join the Union untill Virgia suceaded. He couldnot turn his back on Virginia. The Confederacy wasn't unified at all.
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