Seriously, I can look at WWII and at least understand that it directly related to this moronic armistice the allies forced onto the Germans and that led to all the terrible things in WWII. But the Confederacy was literally just treason for an out of date production method. The cotton gin and a whole host of other inventions were already making slave labor obsolete and the rest of the world was already getting rid of it. The the mental gymnastics by Southerners to justify slavery simply boiled down to "He dumb, Me smart; He pet, Me Master." Meanwhile the richest person in the history of the world at that time and to this day when adjusting for inflation is a black man by a WIDE margin. But yeah, listen to racist today, they use that flag as a rally. South Carolina used that flag as a rally point ONLY FOR de-segregation, and we still have segregation to this day in white neighborhoods. God forbid a black family moves to the suburbs. If it wasn't for all this rampant private segregation (Spurred by scumbag realtors of the time and even to today because I don't put all the blame on white families) in the United States racism would be far less than what it is. Also, we could have some real progress in politics if the GOP just stops pandering to racist white folks. I'm black and I can't even vote conservative because of the actual racist poo the party does even though I believe is Gun Rights(name a black person that doesn't like guns), Pro-life(black girls don't get abortions lol), and a smaller government(racist police, nuff said) like almost every black family does.