The second and third (final) confederate national flags were white to represent the supremacy of the white race: > In explaining the white background, Thompson

The second and third (final) confederate national flags were white to represent the supremacy of the white race: > In explaining the white background, Thompson wrote, "As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State...) It's absolutely clear that the confederate was about white supremacy. It's also hard to argue that the confederate was about self-determination in any way when their very constitution is a litany of laws banning things, like a state's rights to regulating slave ownership. > No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed. This idea that the confederacy was founded for any other reason than slave ownership is absurd and a complete fabrication, unfortunately perpetuated by Texas school books used throughout the United States public schools.