Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag.

  • gravitas_deficiency
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    That’s a bit pedantic. The Union was synonymous with the USA (even at the time); the Confederates or “rebels” were and are synonymous with the CSA.

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      Nah it is not because it reminds those that celebrate the traitors that they were traitors.

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        Yeah, those fuckers killed men in the US Army. To preserve slavery. And then the officer corps and political leaders weren’t executed at the end of the war like they should have been. John Brown got it worse for being a hero.

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          IMO (most of) the land should’ve been taken and given to the freed people, reconstruction failed.

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            Absolutely. 40 acres and a mule. Along with the vote. During reconstruction many people in government were freedmen. Can you imagine what our country would be like now if that continued?

            These racist fascists really have fucked things over