I ask because in nearly every county in the southern states I have seen a statue to a confederate general, leader, or other officer and a confederate flag on the statue. They mostly appear outside of county courthouses.
I'm thinking the Union won that war, but the southerns held onto their "beliefs" via symbols and such are they not traitors to our country?
2007-11-29 08:36:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Charles- Not claiming Southerners are "traitors" but the people on those monuments were and are traitors to our country.
History belongs in books and museums, not on the front steps of public buildings.
2007-11-29 08:44:59 · update #1
bruermaster- I am not fishing for compliments. I live in a southern state and am proud of my state. However, every time I go to the court house I have to look at a traitor to the country I served.
I don't see Germans in Bavaria erecting statues of Hitler or Italians erecting statues of Mussolini or white South Afrikaans erecting statues of Walther.
Yet we in the south feel the need to erect and maintain statues of traitors to the country whose sole purpose was to advance a government bent on keeping slaves as slaves.
I am not bringing up the slave thing, but even the Nazi government did more than just try to erase the Jews.
2007-11-29 08:53:31 · update #2
I thought when a war is lost , you give up your symbols. I don't have a problem with it in graveyards, but I have a problem with it every where else on PUBLIC property.
If you have ever been to the south, you will find that many people are still fighting the civil war, they are still mad about losing, and they complain about yankees'.
They are last in education and always have the lowest SAT scores because they don't want to change anything.
Many talk about yankees' coming to the south and changing it as if it belongs to them. I mean this is the USA, and it belongs to every in the USA.
2007-11-29 08:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is clear that you are fishing for compliments and support. No sane, rational thinking person can possibly believe that the result of a war should dictate what a state can honor. If this were the case, than France should not be allowed to fly there own flag after the Hundered Years War. Should the NFL ban any symbol of the team that loses the Superbowl? Perhaps Cleveland Cavaliers hats and jerseys should be outlawed since they did not win the NBA finals.
You are pathetic for spewing this tripe in here.
2007-11-29 16:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
There were no traitors, just people with two sets of beliefs. You can't make people stop believing just 'cos the others won the war!
Maybe you should forget all this pettiness and hand the country back to the native indians?
2007-11-29 16:53:45 · answer #3 · answered by Heidi W 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You brought up a lot of stuff there. Traitors??? All the South ever wanted to do was be their own country. How is that being a traitor? And yes, symbols and the like are fine. Its part of our past. Part of our culture. You just want to pretend it never happened???
2007-11-29 16:41:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
This is definitely a southern thing. They were proud of their confederate soldiers who died fighting for their cause and this is done to honor those men.
2007-11-29 16:45:03 · answer #5 · answered by Diane M 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing wrong with them honoring their ancestors who fought for their states. They're not doing it to show allegiance to the defunct CSA.
2007-11-29 16:48:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
if i were you i'd address that to every southerner you see. see where that gets you mr. high and mighty.
people are free to put up whatever they want. it's about pride and tradition and heritage, not about a war.
2007-11-29 16:45:08 · answer #7 · answered by gitnrdun 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Just keep slandering the south - it keeps yankees from moving here!
2007-11-29 16:53:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The confederate flag, was the flag flown by the south who lost the civil war. Flying that flag is a tantamount to extending a conflict that ended hundreds of years ago.
Confederates LOST !...but I don't think anyone has told them yet.
Flying that flag says to me, that you are not an American..... You don't support the constitution of the United States, you do not support the laws we have enacted...you are a segregationist left over from the civil war.....you're a "rebel"...not an American.
2007-11-29 16:42:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 7⤋
u do make a good point
2007-11-29 18:13:44 · answer #10 · answered by Military Supporter! 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋