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Glockster, I pray you are not advocating what you posted.

DEB wrote:I was kinda thinking that slavery was legal under the Stars and Stripes for 89 years while under the Stars and Bars for around 5 years. Nothing in that statement except a Flag means what folks want it to mean. I was raised to view the Stars and Bars with kinship, while the Stars and Stripes are my Country's flag. Even folks like me and mine have a heritage and an ethnicity. We do not have a cognitive dissonance between supporting both Colors. Take the Stars and Bars down, I still won't forget them and what I believe they stand for.

Very well put. Thank you. I'm a 5th generation Texan(on my dad's side), and I can remember my Grandmother relating stories from HER mother(on my mom's side) about how, as a young girl they fled Georgia to Clay County during the War of Northern Agression when Gen. Sherman was cutting his scorch & burn policy of his March To The Sea throughout the South. There was no need for it. The South was effectively beaten. It was retribution.

And that rememberance was still alive and well when I was growing up in Forth Worth and Clay County back in the late 1940's, 1950's an into the 60's. It was not so much about slavery(as much as an abomination as it was), as it was about keeping a mostly agrarian society economically depressed by supplying farm machinery & equipment manufactured by the more industrialized North to the non-industrialized South, for the benefit of the Northern States.

Southern Pride is real, and I am proud to be called a Southerner. More importantly, I'm proud to be called and American, And a Texan.