Honestly, what does the confederate flag stand for people?
Whenever this topic comes up, I am always amazed (and, more accurately, appalled) by the answers that I see to this question. The Confederate battle flag has as its inspiration the Scottish flag, and the Cross of St. Andrew. This is for two reasons: the Southern people, historically, were largely of Scot-Irish stock, and they were predominately Christian. The flag, therefore, was created to represent both of these traits in the Southern people. While it is common for ignorant people to make petty attacks against the South, they fail to understand that the South wanted what the founders of the U.S. wanted–they wanted to be left along. The War for Southern Independence was clearly a war of secession, just as the first War for Independence (commonly called the Revolutionary War) was a war of secession from England. And the Southern people had a right to separate just as their ancestors had the same right to separate from England a couple of generations earlier. If you examine the truth o
