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Old 12-01-2014, 08:36 AM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by carpocratian View Post
That's what people claim, but I have lived in Texas all my life and the vast majority of people who wave around the Confederate flag are racist assholes, in my experience.
That's because they were racist assholes, flag or not. The flag represented the rebellion of the Southern States against an over bearing govt that wasn't giving the south equal representation.

Slavery was not the only issue at hand, but history has written it that way, to make the war noble & justified.
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