The South Does It Again

A rebel battle flag has been raised as part of memorial off I 95 just
outside Richmond.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/confederate-battle-flag-raising-scheduled-saturday-south-of-richmond/2013/09/28/1c3b3114-282e-11e3-8ab3-b5aacc9e1165_story.html

 

One fun quote:

"As sons and daughters of the South, we have inherited a birthright. Ours is a proud heritage."

So what heritage are they talking about? The heritage of slavery? Of denying certain members of the population basic civil rights? The heritage of putting a rebel flag on the roof of the car and yelling "YEE-HAH!" What heritage?

 

The new and revised Confederate States of America isn't far behind. And, no, it won't include Obamacare.

 

or civil rights
or rights for women
or edgumacation
it will however include mandatory participation in football for all males 4-18. Don' wanner be no nation a' wussies

 

Isn't this nothing more than a high school painting a rock on the hill overlooking their rival after being outscored 50-6?

 

I could see this happening in some other parts of the country but I've
never thought of The Richmond area as this backwards.

 

CSA Mark II will also include a good swath of the Great Plains and the Intermountain West. Probably how the Civil War would've broken down if they had all 48 contiguous states.

 

I've said for a while that we need a northern and southern US. They get everything west of I-95, everything south of I-70 and everything east of the Arizona border,.

 

Not all of the villages and hamlets in Chesterfield County have been pacified yet.

 

Southern heritage?? Please.

I am as ass-backwards conservative as anyone on this board but the Rebel flag has no place in our society. A tradition of slavery, the formal attempt to destroy the nation and then after starting a war that killed so many, many Southerners made it their mission to make life as miserable as possible for minorities for 100 years.