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Originally Posted by jgaiser
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Sigh.. I know you're kidding (I hope), but the Lost Cause/War of Northern Aggression/War for Southern Independence folks just need to get a grip. The Civil War has been over for nearly 150 years.
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Yes, it was very much tongue-in-cheek.
You are right about some Southerners, though. I've lived in the South for much of my life and there are quite a few individuals who are still "fighting" the Civil War, nearly 150 years since its end (over 150 years from its beginning), evidenced by bumper stickers, t-shirts, Confederate battle flags flying from poles in the beds of pickup trucks, window stickers, license plates,
et al. There are some who genuinely feel like what Hank Williams, Jr. sang facetiously, "If the South had a won, we'd have it made" (or something to that effect).
In the defense of others, I think that this is just the way that some Southerners choose to express their pride in being Southerners. These displays are usually not racist in nature--like one bumper sticker, with a Confederate battle flag on it, says, "Heritage, Not Hate." Still, I know that this kind of display is genuinely offensive, and maybe even hurtful, to some people and I wish that these Southerners would find some other way to express their Southern pride.
The South is interesting.