Reply #4: My answers

[Raine1967]

Question 1: What region were you raised in? (Can be a general region or specific state or city, etc)
New York State

Question 2: What region do you live in now?
Atlanta, Georgia

Question 3: What was your first exposure to the Confederate flag?
High School; Social Studies Class

Question 3: What is your perception of the Confederate flag? ("stars and bars" or "Confederate battle flag" - you know the one I mean)- answer in any length you desire but the more thorough the better - you may use historical references or answer "why" you have that perception if you want to - that will assist as well

I have lived down here for 2 years. I was taught that the civil war was a stain upon our nation. When I came down here I saw there was a celebration by some (not all... please bear with me, I am NOT a damn Yankee) that the war never really ended.

There is a group here in georgia that want the stars and bars BACK as the state flag. I am still trying to understand why people embrace an image that for me represents slavery.

As a person who grew up in the north, we were taught the Civil War is not the pride of the nation, and it seems to me, that many people embrace this image as southern pride without understanding what the war was really all about.