>Seeing as the confederacy was openly about protecting slavery as the SINGULAR issue separating them from the Union, choosing the fly a flag that represents a s

>Seeing as the confederacy was openly about protecting slavery as the SINGULAR issue separating them from the Union, choosing the fly a flag that represents a short rebellion (and open treason) against the US is definitively choosing to represent yourself as a confederate. I am in no way denying that slavery was the cause of the South's secession from the US. My point is that if one calls himself part of the "boys" of the "Union army" today, then obviously one's political enemies are thus the Confederates, and thus ipso facto racist, and thus must be the evil/wrong side.