17/01: The Confederate Flag, Secession, and Arguments over Causes
Category: American Culture
Posted by: an okie gardener
We have touched a nerve here at Bosqueboys with Farmer's postings on the Confederate flag, and on the justification arguments for secession, and on the causes of the Civil War. Lots of passion.
I cannot believe that this emotional response simply relates to an event a century and a half ago. Indeed, Rue-Mur talks much of the present.
May I open a related thread? I invite you to comment on why the Confederate flag, and the Civil War, etc., is an emotional issue for you today. What gives you the fire that you've shown in your comments?
I cannot believe that this emotional response simply relates to an event a century and a half ago. Indeed, Rue-Mur talks much of the present.
May I open a related thread? I invite you to comment on why the Confederate flag, and the Civil War, etc., is an emotional issue for you today. What gives you the fire that you've shown in your comments?
A Waco Farmer wrote:
On the other hand, we lost our federal republic. We began the long march from the old way to modernity. For this reason, so many conservative thinkers fall in love with the Old South. The Southern way is the way of tradition. The American way is the way of progress.
The paradox for the modern Southerner is that so many of us are traditionalist at heart, and modernist in reality. We are nostalgic for the old values and stability (sans slavery)--but we are addicted to the emoluments of modernity.