<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by Wise Womcat:
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by MuffyTheVampyreLayer:
These people who have a problem with the confederate flag are truly exemplifying stereotypical views associated with symbolism. The American history is rich in a diversity of culture and ways of thinking. Granted, many bad things have happened during that history, but a lot of good has also happened. The south has a history to be proud of, alas, one which is marred by the ever present cloud of civil war and slavery. However, I would like to think that we are mature enough as a society to acknowledge that this is a past not to be repeated, and move on, taking with us the original meaning of the flag, one of independence and the union of brilliant liberated people, endeavouring to meet and conquer the challenges arrived at by a nation of forward thinkers.
Only when we put our petty bigotry behind us and move on, arm in arm, brothers united, embracing our past as yet another successfully met challenge will we truly have free minds and souls.
Embrace the Flag! Hail the Flag! Long live the Flag!
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HAHAHA! This is really funny to me! You talk about how we should remember all the good things the South did, and one can only assume you mean the South as a nation. Well, I'll remind you that when the South was it's own nation there for a while (well, except Texas, but we had another flag then too), the only thing they accomplished was being stomped into the ground by the north, and then being re-added to the United States. Some "proud history!" If you weren’t talking about the South as a nation, you would be talking about it as a geographical location IN THE UNITED STATES! Our flag for that would be the United State’s Flag, not the Confederate Battle Flag...
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You really are an idiot aren't you? Would you like me to school you on the Republic of Texas and how it was nonexistant during the Civil War? Texas was part of the confederacy after Sam Houston resigned from office. The Republic of Texas was non-existant years earlier when Texas became part of the Union. Furthermore, the confederacy was not viewed a nation, but rather as a bunch of rebellious states trying to succeed from the union TO form a nation.
It was on December 29, 1845, that Texas was admitted to the United States as the 28th state, being the 15th state in the order of admission to the Union after the original 13 colonies.
The convention, which assembled in Austin on January 28, 1861, was dominated by secessionists. On February 1 the delegates adopted an ordinance of secession by a vote of 166 to 8. This ordinance was approved by the voters of the state, 46,153 to 14,747, on February 23. The convention reassembled in early March, declared Texas out of the Union, and adopted a measure uniting the state with other Southern states in the newly formed Confederate States of America (they succeeded from the union but by their own vote...it wouldn't be recognized by the union, hence the war to regain the rebellious south).
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Spoooooooge
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[This message has been edited by Strider (edited 02-05-2001).]