confederacy
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The Confederate Flag Is Not a Symbol of the South
A ‘New South’ needs new symbology As a French-Canadian immigrant to North Carolina in my youth, seeing the Confederate flag sitting atop poles and donned on t-shirts and bumper stickers was a normal, albeit strange sight. In school, we learned the Confederacy was defeated in a bloody civil war. In the end, the slaves were…
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We Need New Symbols of Southern Pride
As a French-Canadian immigrant to North Carolina in my youth, seeing the Confederate colors atop flagpoles and donned on t-shirts and bumper stickers was a normal, albeit strange, sight. In school, we learned that the Confederacy was defeated in a bloody civil war. In the end, the slaves were freed from bondage and the South…