What does the Confederate Flag mean to you?

[Plant City Rebel]

I don't see it as a symbol of slavery, maybe because after about 1830 only two members  of my family actually had slaves, Yet the others  still signed up to fight.   I also don't see the Cross as a symbol of the Confederacy.  I see it as the flag of the common soldier who left his family at home to join his countrymen in the defense of their homes.  Not a single member of my family joined the fight until AFTER Lincoln called for volunteers.  Now let me set one thing straight on my view.  I am an American I am proud of being a United States citizen.  I enjoy my constitutional freedoms very much.  I love being in a nation where even if you are wrong, you are still entitled to believe you are right.      However, this does not make me any less proud of my Confederate Heritage.  I'm not ashamed of it, I won't be ridiculed for it, and I am not less of a person morally because of it.  The one thing society forgets, is that SOUTHERN WHITES were not the only slaveholders, there were NORTHERN slave holders, and in some spots, Louisiana and Georgia mainly there were even BLACK slaveholders.  Revisionist history has forgotten that.  I think that it would do the whole country a bit of good to be reminded of that fact. 

[Plant City Rebel]

I voted "something else."

The Confederate Flag means absolutely nothing to me.

I'd also say the same thing about any other flag.  I find it funny how people-not to mention whole governments-hold something as silly as a piece of cloth so dear.

Clay,

it's not the piece of cloth that is being held dear, it is the sacrifice made by those who followed, fell and died for the beliefs that the flag stood for, and their willingness to lay their life down for it.  Remember, Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori.    I have the same respect for all flags because at some point, they represent someones final sacrifice.   

[Plant City Rebel]

Ignorance, racism, bigotry, hatred, slavery, white supremacy, segregation, rednecks, illiteracy, Jim Crow, immorality, gilder, philistinism...

Funny,  I think some of the same things upon seeing  Old Glory.  Ignorance, apparently knows no boundaries.  Oh, wait, it *IS* more prevalent among those who are supposedly more educated than anyone else.

[Plant City Rebel]

Ignorance, racism, bigotry, hatred, slavery, white supremacy, segregation, rednecks, illiteracy, Jim Crow, immorality, gilder, philistinism...

How about treason?

Not sure about that one. Just about every flag in the world represents that.

Ignorance, racism, bigotry, hatred, slavery, white supremacy, segregation, rednecks, illiteracy, Jim Crow, immorality, gilder, philistinism...

Funny,  I think some of the same things upon seeing  Old Glory.  Ignorance, apparently knows no boundaries.  Oh, wait, it *IS* more prevalent among those who are supposedly more educated than anyone else.

No, 'old glory' means pretty much the same awful things as the confederate flag means - Racism, genocide, intolerance, etc.

Forgot genocide

But seriously, was there a systematic killing of the second-class citizens? You know I'm not the one to argue that there was anything noble about their deeds, but that's what it would take to be defined as genocide.

okay, maybe not genocide, but certainly a distinct  persecution of other citizens to reach what was desired.  Wounded Knee, Trail of Tears, Little Bighorn, Internment Camps during WWII, any of that ringing a bell?