Confederate Flag: living in the past or just showing pride?

we all know that the confederate flag was the banner for the confeds during the american civil war. does it seem weird to anyone else that they still hang it in the south? espescially after they LOST THE WAR?
it seems to me that people either like to live in the past or enjoy conveying to the world that they were impartial to the bill of rights and got slaughtered because of it.

what is your thoughts?

People keep up the confedate flag because the civil war was about the states rights over the countrys reign. It wasnt about slavery as some people say.

dont get me wrong i know that, but slavery is what sparked the dispute and led to different stuggles. it seems to me that people in the south still wish that there had been a confederate states of america.

It's supposed to be a symbol of southern pride but most people take it as a symbol of white power which is false.

"a symbol of white power which is false."

which is what it stood for in the past.

if they were smart they would have changed their 'southern' flag after the war to a different one, one that lets go of their pride and humbles itself to the american flag

I have a confederate flag on the wall in my room and i have a nifty belt buckle with the flag on it too. I usually wear it just to piss other people off...

Whenever I see someone with a confederate flag hanging at someone's house when I'm in north carolina I usually see an america flag right above it. And I don't think it ever stood for white pride.. people just tried to make it that way but it always was the symbol of the south.

Is a symbol of American History. I don't have a problem at all when people wear it for fashion reasons. To use it as a symbol of racist pride is NOT okay with me. Personally I think is a cool awesome flag.....HOORAY FOR DIXIE!!

i have an american flag to the left of it on the same wall.

well in theroy the American flag should be above the confederate flag.

But what do i know i am British 😉

Even though I'm impartial one way or another, I'm just glad that the responses SO FAR in this thread have been sensible.
I would have never bet on it.

"I have a confederate flag on the wall in my room and i have a nifty belt buckle with the flag on it too. I usually wear it just to piss other people off..."

well thats fine,

you know the KLU KLUX KLAN used it as their symbol. for awhile.

its a beutiful flag but well don't see the point in using it.

The confederate flag is a symbol for redneck/hick pride.

😐

its cooler than your other flag but it stands for bad things. Well its connected with them. So why use it its just offensive to some people.

Originally posted by BackFire
The confederate flag is a symbol for redneck/hick pride.

Why do you say that? 😐

People are too damn touchy. It's not like it's the swastika.

Originally posted by theReject
Why do you say that? 😐

Because those are usually the people who are really really proud of that flag.

Actually that would have been my next example, I mean people can think the Nazi Flag is beautiful, it is appealing but it has just a lot of bad things connected to it. So why offend people if you can just not?