Reply #12: I won't defend the Confederate flag, but [View All]

[PinkTiger]

there is no comparison between it and the Nazi swastika.
The Yankees burned our courthouse down, they raped our women and stole our lifestock, killed us or left us for dead. They were no better than the Confederates.
And the war was not just fought over slavery. Slavery was the reason given by the Yankees to galvanize public opinion. What was really at stake was our land, and our raw goods.
The Yankees were horrible, and the carpetbaggers were worse.
While I don't condone the use of the flag today, as it is used by white supremacists, let us not forget the great wrongs done the South by the Yankees.
I'm a proud Southerner, who realizes that we are a conquered people. The South was once much richer and much more important, politically, than the North. After the War Between the States, that was forever altered.