[Ginny]

Southerners remember the Civil War and bear the Confederate Flag because we are proud of our heritage. It is not a heritage free from sin (whose is?), but it cannot be defined solely in terms of slavery. To do that would be like defining German heritage in terms of Nazism or Christianity in terms of the Crusades. The South clings to our regional heritage because, by and large, we are such an ethnically homogenous population. The Northeast has Puerto Rican, Polish, etc. groups that cling to their heritage because the North’s history is the history of the immigrants. As for Reconstruction, I doubt that anyone who is truly informed of the Republican Congress’ Reconstruction policies towards the South (white and black alike) were just or deserved. Like so much else in that bleak period of our nation’s history, Reconstruction was a horrible byproduct of an atrocious war.

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Name : Ginny, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, City : Louisville, State : KY, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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