Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
Yes.... a symbol of home-and-hearth and the courage of ancestors" ...
It's not MY flag... I'm a Union Man, through and through... but it's theirs... and it means a great many good things to them that we do not fully appreciate.
We should not forget that on April 9, 1865, the day of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, on the White House lawn, President Lincoln asked the assembled bands on the lawn that evening, to play "Dixie", which, he declared, was now Federal property.
The Confederate flag does, indeed, mean home and hearth and the courage of ancestors, to vast numbers of people in the Old South, far more than it has any negative and racist form of connotation, and they are anguished over the prospective loss of that symbol, which the North, in its victorious magnanimity, wisely allowed them to retain.