Confederate Flag License Plate Sparks Debate

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Better check your facts before calling names. Texas v. White settled the secession question once and for all and any and all secession clauses or ordinances in the various states are null. The Union is perpetual and indissoluble.

I disagree. Maybe legal precedent (a flimsy and temporal pretext) says the Union is perpetual and, what that other is, now, but that could easily change. It's nuts to think that the US is a big backer of self-determination all over the world but not at home.

Majority rules! And if a state wants out of this sinking ship, that's the will of the people, who has the right to oppose?

Originally Posted by Bakkels

Well as a non American I'm no expert. And what Mookie said looks to make sense. But I always wondered what that flag exactly means nowadays. I mean I know it was the flag of the south in the Civil War, but what is it's meaning now? Does it just represent a general feel of rebellion? Or does it have a racial connotation too?
I'm just curious since I see this flag coming up in movies and series now and then and I always wonder what it is exactly that it stands for?

Speaking for myself, a native Southerner, I think most who fly the flag see it as a way of flipping off authority. It also represents the will and determination of the South to hold on to their way of life (which was pretty shabby, on the whole, but hey).

Illegal rebellion, ha, the US was founded on that concept, right, Jim?