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who fought for the South during the war was fighting for Slavery. Were some of them? Probably. Were all of them? Doubt it.

The reality is that the flag doesn't present much of a problem here in the south. I can't even recall seeing any disputes between blacks and whites over the flag. In fact, no one really cared until the NAACP stepped in. Once they stepped in, then the flag became a much larger issue. In true American fashion, the governor of Mississippi allowed the residents of the state to vote for whether or not to remove the confederate battle emblem from the state flag. While reports suggest that the vote to keep the emblem was 2:1, the fact is that 84% of the state of Mississippi voted not to change the flag.

This suggests that the entire issue was blown out of proportion by the media, as it most everything else. In recent years, the South has seen blacks not only play for football teams called "The Rebels", not only begin watching supposedly racist shows such as "The Dukes Of Hazzard", but actually sporting the confederate flag on their clothing. There is no problem, there are no fights. If blacks and whites in the South choose not to fight over the flag, why should anyone try to make them? Why should the rest of the nation portray a flag as hateful, when the group of people who this flag is supposed to be hateful against recognize it as heritage and as a reminder of what the war stood for?

The Confederate Flag is always good for a debate. The Confederate Flag is always a good target when looking to invoke "the race card". But ask yourself when the last time you saw an ordinary citizen in the South, either black or white, actually resort to violence because of this flag. If people here in the South are comfortable with it, and it is doing no harm, then I see no reason to continue pushing the issue, even if you are using it as a platform against something, or misrepresenting yourself as fighting for the black Americans who could care less. The Confederate Flag has always been about heritage. Even when it was being fought under. No not by everyone, but by enough to effectively combat the distorted views of what not only the flag, but entire Civil War was about.

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