The Confederate flag has never bothered me. I spent a lot of time reading and thinking about the civil war when I left university. I found that I identified with the South's struggle to preserve state rights and their bitterness over the growing economic disparity. I can see a little bit of Alberta in their cause.
That being said, I would never fly the Confederate battle flag in public, its current symbolic meaning is not something I could stand behind. Even if the Confederates did produce some damn pretty flags.
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