How does seeing a confederate flag make you feel?

Question

Occasionally I will see them but I live in the south. If it offends you, why? If you wave one yourself, why?

Answer 1

Makes me feel like watching the "Dukes of Hazzard" the show not the movie

Answer 2

great !!! the underdog of America still lives --- the sad part is the lives that were lost in a civil war that took more Americans "out" than two world war casualties combined . none the less the confederate flag deserves a place in history and indeed in modern times --- for those critics --- picture yourself fighting for what !!!??? and for what gain ?? this was a bloody massacre that would be shunned on in to days world ( although Iraq's not looking so good ) . the heavy handed shortsighted people back then ran a war where there were no winners --- the tradition continues --- sadly !!

Answer 3

I used to collect Confederate flag memorablia, and it is really sad to see the facist bigots who wave that flag as a symbol of hate. I have several flags, such as the battle flags of the states, but I will never hoist one at my home or place of residency, as opposed to the white trash I occasionally see. There is a difference between pride and prejudice. We should never forget our history; our country has learned from it and has been improved upon because of it. And there are certain people who should let it go.... the South will never rise again; it is in conjunction with the Industrial North and together we have flourished as the United States of America.

Answer 4

I use them for fire starter when I can get my hands on them, occasionally they are sold in the flee markets. The flag is a sign what treason was, since it was the South that fell away from the Union over a humanity situation. The ideology has no place in America at all today.

Answer 5

I see it pointless in a political sense. The Confederate Flag is a national flag of a nation that failed to succeed from it's parent nation.

No one waves flags from other failed coups (at least not in the cases where nobody any longer believes in the cause). The south could be one of the most patiotic areas of this country, and yet some of them insist on waving a flag which stood for anti-American sentiments & slavery. Kind of pathetic, and pretty sad.

I don't believed that the flag has "evolved" and now stands for southern heritage. In fact, they flag has even been removed off of one of the state flags (I believe it was either Georgia or Mississippi) because it was considered offensive. I completely understand why black American do not appreciate the Confederate flag, and the Confederate flag means nothing to anybody politically or religiously anymore, so why not get rid of it?

Some quick trivia:
The south is generally an area with Republicans outnumbering Democrats. If you study history, you'll find that at the time of the Civil War, the Democrats were found in the south, while the Republicans were in the north (the views of each party switch every hundred years or so). I'm honestly surprised that, if nothing else, it hasn't disappeared simply because (more than likely) a Democrat made it.

Answer 6

I feel nothing but the feeling of being an American. A terrible war that we lost many good people on both sides fighting to unite our country that is all. I have relatives that fought on both sides in that war. One is buried in Bunker Hill, still, hey that rythmes ha ha. Sometimes people only see the racism and that was not ever the reason for that war it was about the unity of the states and getting the foreigners out of our biz as well as the American profiteers on both sides. Unfortunately when the South lost those carpetbaggers got their way and all hell broke loose and our American brothers and sisters in the South suffered heavily for years upon years. If Lincoln was not shot I think him being poor and all and a southerner himself wouldn't have allowed what happened to the south ever. But then maybe that was the plan and why he was shot? Power and Greed?

Answer 7

I think the confederate flag represents something unpleasant these days and certainly makes a statement about the people that are waving it. Oh wait. . .isn't that the entire state of Mississippi?

Answer 8

I am from as typically North Yankee territory as you can ask(Boston), and I am not remotely offended by that flag. Some see it as some racist thing, and that is uninformed. To me it is a symbol of rebellion and free thought. The civil war represented evil vs evil. Slavery vs big government federalization. No winners, when you get down to it.(Not that the civil war was about slavery. It was about seccession)
When you get down to it, I almost never see it. Which is probably more a geographical accident than anything else. But I think more of state's rights(as the south had EVERY constitutional right to seceede from the union) than I do some nonsensical bigotry slave loving nonsense that the American left likes to screech about when they see it.

Answer 9

Weak minds will always take offense at the pride of another. We are all supposed to be so ashamed of our history and bow to political correctness. All of history is full of things done wrong but they all helped make what is and the only measure should be is what we will make of it for tomorrow. A white southerner should no more be condemned for a rebel flag than a black man should be for celebrating black pride. Neither can undo the past and neither will bring it back. But each should have pride in who they are and not be dependent on what the other thinks or feels. Time moves slowly on the removal of resentments when men base their lives on what other think of them or when feelings are hurt by symbols that are powerless.

Answer 10

I'm from Kentucky. It doesn't offend me but I have seen it used offensively. I think it depends on your intent when you fly that flag.

There is a heritage that is connected to that flag and it's not racist by any means. It's just been used to represent that.