Rebel flag question?

Question

I've lived in Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and am currently residing in Michigan. Every suburb that I've moved to in all 4 states has someones personal rebel flag flying on every block . These are "yankee" states right? And the people flying them said they were born and raised in the north. So why are they flying it? (and no, they're not racist)

Answer 1

The history you learned in school is flawed, because they taught you that the war between the north and south was to end slavery.
In reality, it was about an over reaching federal government infringing on state rights.
I am not racist and many people I know that fly that flag, (I do not), aren't racist either.
Read the constitution for yourself and find how the federal government, EVEN TODAY over steps its' bounds into states rights.

Answer 2

Most people fail to realize the rebel flag was not about slavery but the right for the states to live as they saw fit . They wanted slaves and the government said no but gave them no choices on how to make they change from slavery . The Rebel flag is a symbol by most southerners as their right to live as they wanted . Had they civil war never took place the US would have been like England and by the turn of the century slavery would have died with the new technology .

Answer 3

Not everyone who flies a rebel flag is a racist. I think history looks at the south during the Civil War times as ALL bad. Granted, slavery is bad enough to go to war for by its self, but everyone knows that was not the primary reason for war at the time. Only a small percentage of Southerners were slave owners. Most were poor dirt farmers.
What I think the rebel flag stands for to most people is rebelling against government control.

Answer 4

So if you have talked with them enough to find out they were born and raised in the north, why haven't you just asked them why they are flying the stars and bars (or the Confederate battle flag, whichever it is they are displaying)?

Edit: Note: It is necessary to disclaim any connection of these flags to neo-nazis, red-necks, skin-heads and the like. These groups have adopted this flag and desecrated it by their acts. They have no right to use this flag - it is a flag of honor, designed by the confederacy as a banner representing state's rights and still revered by the South. In fact, under attack, it still flies over the South Carolina capitol building. The South denies any relation to these hate groups and denies them the right to use the flags of the confederacy for any purpose. The crimes committed by these groups under the stolen banner of the conderacy only exacerbate the lies which link the seccesion to slavery interests when, from a Southerner's view, the cause was state's rights.

Answer 5

The conflict between the States grew to become into fought over 'states rights'. the U. S. government have been overstepping their obstacles via attempting to tell the Southern states what to do. They succeeded from the U. S. government and shaped their own separate u . s . and the confererate (revolt) flag represented the accomplice States of united statesa.. Slavery grew to become into, at that factor, an exceedingly minor subject.