[justin27081]

many, particularly from the south, view the civil war as the hegemonic conquest of federalism and industrial concerns over the state-based libertarian autonomy prescribed in the constitution and agricultural concerns rather than simply a moral crusade by the ‘enlightened’ north to free the slaves. indeed it was probably a mixture of both. the north did have these motives as is apparent when examining the rhetoric euphamised as ‘preserving the union’, and the south came out of the war looking pretty third-world until the 70’s. advocates of southern pride offer proof that the north was no more progressive than the south in terms of race and that slavery would’ve been abolished in the south in short order had states been left to operate autonimously, but that is of course speculation. but to slander all southerners as racist as if northerners are somehow not is just wrong. for a southerner, watching the mainstream media must be a never ending string of insults as anytime someone needs to be portrayed as stupid, inbred, violent or most of all racist, they are portrayed as a southerner. and this is coming from somebody raised in connecticut. that the confederate flag can be applied as a racist symbol is evident in the way that many states only started flying it as protest to the civil rights movement, but that is not why most southerners fly it.

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Name : justin27081, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, City : chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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