Like what noble goals were Southerners under the confederate flag fighting for? Could you please remind us?
What a horror it must be for all your white neighbors to see your black skin in their traditionally Caucasian hometown. You are probably scaring the local kids to death.
It sounds quite like the opposite: There are a few individuals out there who just cannot fit in. Whatever you give them they always feel their freedom is infringed on. Now they well feel their Southern Pride is violated but they all happily drive cars made in Detroit. And eat food from all over the places, even , the Middle East mind you. They keep on accusing people on the left while in reality everyone to them stands on the left. Whatever happens they look for ways to feel infringed and attacked. That is the conservative South today.
I think you don't get the point: you can show anything you want on your own private personal roof top. But you can't show a confederate flag on a state building anymore because for many the flag stands for a past during which forefathers were enslaved. And for others it stands for a glorious past (whatever they are referring to). But fact remains we are talking about public building that are paid for by tax dollars by everyone (yes black people also pay taxes)
I tell you what business they have: the United States formed a union because some in the civil war got their asses kicked and lost. Simple as that. Today, a lot of federal subsidies keep a number of Southern States on life support. What the United States democratically decides is something states need to bow to even if this does not want to go into your thick and prideful Southern head. By the way you don't need to grab any ancle and do anything. You can in fact keep your back yard flagged. But you will not see a confederate flag on State buildings anymore capiche?
The Civil War was about States Rights (the supremacy of the 10th Amendment) and economics. Up until and during the Civil War, slavery was perfectly legal. It wasn't outlawed by the Constitution, therefore each State had the authority to allow it. I'm not saying this is noble, but it's far more complex then the grade-school explanation offered by todays Charlatans on the Left who present the issue as Southern = racist, Northern = emancipator. The North had a shitload of slaves. The Civil War was much more a power grab then a moral crusade. And the South was right - the 10th Amendment did protect their right to engage in the slave trade, at the time. The North waged an unconstitutional war against the South under the banner of a legal practice. Now I'm not saying all that is right. I'm just saying it's a lot more complicated then the pap were fed on TV. Know what I mean?
Sure I know what you mean. But all that does not change the fact that the South lost and became part of a union of states and there is an accepted centralized federal government elected in a democratic process. And not only those who see the confederate flag as a sign of pride and noble ideals (I still fail to understand which ones those might be) pay taxes that pay for state buildings but also those who interpret it as a sign of a period of horror and abuse.