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Old 12-19-2005, 11:00 PM
ddubois ddubois is offline
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Default Re: So I guess some people think symbols/posters should be banned.

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Also, I don't see how the confederate flag represents slavery. The civil war was about states' rights, not slavery. Slavery was a side issue.

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I personally think this is BS. The claim that the war was about "states rights" is a bit of semantic munging to make the southern states sound slightly more noble than they actually were, perhaps as a means of mending fences between the two halves of the country.
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