Southern States, keep your flag flying..

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Confederate flag.

The NAACP is on the warpath again, trying to get all of these taken down.


To me this is a issue of States rights, they should be able to fly whatever they want, I don't care if they want to fly the skull&cross-bones.

Those of you in these states call your reps and support the flag.

I'm up here in the No. country, but I'm going out and order me a couple so I can fly them here.
 
Gus, thanks for the support! This comes up every few years when JJ and his buddies don't have anything else to protest. Last time it came up for a popular referendum it got shot down. The flag changers in GA don't really know what to do: another referendum would fail, there aren't enough votes in the Statehouse to change it, and so they kind of have all their eggs in the basket of a federal lawsuit filed by politicos, teachers, national guardsmen, and the like (and very likely they will have a hard time convincing the federal district court in Atlanta to order Georgia to change it). Barnes hasn't said diddly because he knows that 1) He ain't anywhere near as popular as Zell Miller (who almost lost his 2nd election over the issue) and 2) Southerners got real long memories for insult. I kinda feel sorry for him because if he sides against the flag he'll loose the support of the rest of rural Georgia, he's already lost the teachers over his education plan, and a good chunk of Atlantans vote Republican already. As liberal as it looks to be anti-flag, he is very pro-second amendment. It's like he can't decide whether to act like a northern democrat or a southern democrat. I also don't think any of these protesters know the old GA state flag had a Confederate flag on it, too. They aren't going to be happy until it's red, green and black with a picture of Mufweesi Kubumfri (or whatever the hell his name is) in the middle, so we might as well stick it out with the one we've got.

There is already a backlash in South Carolina to put it back up (they moved it from atop the capitol building to a Confederate memorial on the statehouse grounds, and the protest continued), and I can't see Mississippi folding, either. Sorry for sounding like a hick, but if they don't like the flags in the south they can move their sorry a** to Jersey.
 
If they added it to the state flag as a protest to desegregation then they are wrong to keep it up.

If you don't see that, well, take a deep breath and realize that this display is one of hatred and not heritage.

So what is the case here?
 
I wish that in GA, we'd just go back to the pre-'56 flag and have done with it. It's the same as the current flag, except based on the CSA flag instead of the battle flag.

Take the wind out of the sails of the racial demagogues. Then maybe they could/would go to work on promoting achievement, chastity, marriage, and other virtues in their own community, instead of blaming their own communities' shortcomings on evil whitey.

Someone better figure out how to make this firearms related, or I see a locked thread a-coming. :)
 
I've got mine flying!
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Well, they got it done here in SC last year. The funny thing is though, in my 20 years living here, I've never seen so many Confederate Flags being flown- homes,vehicles,T-shirts,bumper stickers,etc. since the NAACP started their crusade. They got the ONE down from the Statehouse Dome but thousands more have taken its place. IMHO they created more racial division than harmony.
 
Status in Mississippi

Mississippi is having a special election in April to let the citizens decide. This is probably the only "fair" way to decide.
Cynic that I am, I forsee the possibility of recounts and chads etc ad inifinitum.
 
Firearm related, huh.....

uh , less see...... We fought a war for our freedom and the flag is about our heritage not hate...... :P

oh well I tried :D
 
I find the opinion that supporters of the current GA state flag support hate particularly offensive.I struggle to understand how folks that don't live in the state of Georgia can support special interest groups imposing their will on my state to change our flag when the will of the vast majority of Georgians is to leave the state flag as it is. It's confusing to me when these same people rant on about HCI's ongoing attempts to take away THEIR rights to own firearms.......How about if the federal government just imposes an across-the-board law....NO state flags anywhere....BAN all state flags in all 50 states............ ..period....don't want to offend anyone...Dan in GA
 
Dan, have you looked at the history of the flag change in the early '50's when we got the current flag? It's pretty obvious it was done as a "f%$^ you" to the emerging Civil Rights movement and to the Federal Government that was enforcing equal treatment under the laws on the states. in general, I don't like the racial demagogues (Jackson, Sharpton, et al), or "activists" and Federal government types forcing changes on a State, but this one is pretty obvious.

Look, the pre-'52 (or whatever year it was changed) GA flag recognizes our Southern heritage, being based on the CSA flag. Change back to that, and get on with it, and take away a point of demagoguery for the povery pimps.
 
I wasn't around in '56 so I don't know if the GA State flag was changed to honor the upcoming Confederate memorial or as a response to fed education desgregation demands. Personally, I don't care. I kind of like that my state told the feds to kiss their a** by replacing the CSA flag with the battle flag. Who else lives in a state that's willing to tell the fed gubmint to go to hell in front of the whole world? And does the world care? We still got the 96 Olympics, a recent Superbowl, etc. Left wing groups threatening to stay out of Georgia if we don't change it? Don't let the screen door hit ya where the good Lord split ya! No one is fooling themselves thinking that if the flag was changed back to the CSA flag the protest would end. They want a whole new flag that doesn't acknowledge the Confederacy at all. Screw 'em.
 
The same groups that want to remove the flags want your guns, there this makes it gun related. :)

The point here is they won't stop in any state until they get them all down, then what, then they'll go after the ones in your front lawn or on your truck, probably by going after the mfgrs.

To all the states that do, fly em if ya got em.
Let em fly.
 
For those who don't know.

When my state of South Carolina removed the flag from the dome they stuck it right in front of the Capitol building. When I say stuck I should say shoved it, there's no way you can miss it now. Before, people at least had to look up.

I agree that it probably was put up just to make a point, but just to tick a few people off, if your address doesn't end in a SC zip code the stay the h@ll out of our business. That’s just my opinion to anyone who wants to know including JJ and the Race Baiter Gang.
 
I'm with Jim and Enoch on this one. GA put the flag there to protest giving blacks rights. As much as I respect state's rights and would argue until I was out of breath their right to have whatever flag if they like, it's wrong. It wasn't put there to honor the confederacy. It was put there to show that they only recognized blacks as something less than American.

On the other hand, it's the business of those in that state to do something about it, not outside protestors.
 
Everything not enumerated in the Constitution is the business of the states and the people.

The Feds have no business or right to dictate to a State on any subject not covered in the Constitution.

Including Flags.

Hi George
 
The Confederate flag, to me, represents the dirt-poor plowboys (like my great-great-grandfathers) who fought an invader of their home soil. They owned no slaves, and they didn't start the war. They were just grunts, fighting to protect their homes.

I display the flag to honor them, and I don't give a rat's a** if Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, the federal government, or anyone else doesn't like it.

I resent racist groups that adopt the flag as their symbol, but I will not discard it because of them.
 
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