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dixiegrrrrl

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17. Now why did I think Canada's flag had a cross???
Tue Jul 28, 2015, 08:33 PM
Jul 2015

There are layers and layers and layers of meaning to Southern history, you have to know who was here at the time and where they came from
originally ( Scots-Irish and English and French and Spanish)and how their religion and family status dictated their viewpoints.
And you have to know that "the South" is not one homogeneous place, that each state and even each PART of a state has different customs and history, and how all of that came to bear on what formed the Confederacy and what forms people in the Southern states today.

Having said all that, the South was just as convinced that the white man was superior and God was on their side as were the Europeans who bred those beliefs in all who landed in the colonies, and the flags were part of that expression.

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