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In fact, they are the Real America, the rest of us are foreigners

Published by digby on October 23, 2014

In fact, they are the Real America, the rest of us are foreigners

by digby

Truth:

I cannot count the ways in which this (from 2013) is idiotic:

Plans by a heritage group, the Virginia Flaggers, to erect a large Confederate flag on a major road outside Richmond has drawn considerable fire from critics who say it’s a symbol of hate.

That’s not true, says Barry Isenhour, a member of the group, who says it’s really about honouring the Confederate soldiers who gave their lives. For him, the war was not primarily about slavery but standing up to being over-taxed, and he says many southerners abhorred slavery.

“They fought for the family and fought for the state. We are tired of people saying they did something wrong. They were freedom-loving Americans who stood up to the tyranny of the North. They seceded from the US government not from the American idea.”

Here’s an All-American idea for you: you lost.

Somebody should ask him about this:

“The flag wasn’t a major symbol until the Civil Rights movement began to take shape in the 1950s,” says Bill Ferris, founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, “it was a battle flag relegated to history but the Ku Klux Klan and others who resisted desegregation turned to the flag as a symbol.”

Imagine that.
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