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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Happy to meet you, winter. Hope you can regard this as a positive encounter.
I am a non-racist bearer of C.S.A. flags - although I favor the 3rd National myself.
One of my many C.S.A. ancestors was Captain David Cartwright Jackson, but I can show you my U.D.C. card if need be, 33girl.
I was a featured speaker at a Sam Davis Camp this summer - my topic was southern linguistics. It's not always just about The War - in many, many cases - including the many learned (as in university professors and PhDs I know through SCV, UDC and LOS) ladies and gentlemen I know in heritage groups - it is also about southern culture.(Not an oxymoron) After 4 years in New Jersey I can say that most above the Mason-Dixon don't get that - hence the whole "Why don't they just get over it" thing, which is insulting in its idiocy. It's right up there with "Well, at least we won The War!" which always made me wonder why those New Jersyians couldn't come up with anything in defense of themselves other than an event which occurred over 100 years ago.
Other than that, I don't want to disrupt the southern hate-in developing here, and I am going to resolve to stay away from news and politics. She flew the flag, the neighbors didn't like it, they built the fences, she didn't like it, she made sure she could continue to exercise her free speech rights. I don't get why this is "news". Happy stereotyping.
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Also co-signing, along with MysticCat's questioning why one would purposely do something that would cause hate among the neighbors.
These discussions are always interesting to me, growing up north of the Mason-Dixon line with a mother named Dixie Lee. I couldn't begin to count how many people have asked me what her real name was, or why was she named Dixie Lee - especially since I have biracial foster cousins. To my knowledge, no ancestors of mine ever owned any slaves. I have never flown a Confederate Flag, except while doing a historical retrospective of vexillology in America.
When my mother & I were invited to our first event with the United Daughters of the Confederacy, we had mixed emotions. We finally decided that, unless we saw the "why". This answers the question:
"I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I can no more help being a Daughter of the Confederacy than I can help being an American, and I feel that I was greatly favored by inheriting a birthright for both."
Written by Mary Nowlin Moon (Mrs. John)
That said, while I'm proud of all of my ancestors, Northern, Southern or whatever, I wouldn't fly the flag if I knew it caused grief. I have some little ones, souvenirs of the above-mentioned project, but they stay inside (next to a funny photo of Tyra!). Isn't there a biblical verse about not causing your neighbor to sin?
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