[The Urban Sombrero]

States have a right to secede. I very much doubt that the Constitution would have been ratified had most of the states thought that they were giving up their rights to an all powerful federal government. My ancestors owned slaves- I make no apology for it. They owned them legally.It may not have been an efficient economic system- but was both legal and moral in their eyes. As far as I am concerned the Confederate flag was the flag of my country and my ancestors country during the War of Northern Aggression. It should be flown proudly over the public buildings of any of the seceding states.

"I doubt the Constitution would have been ratified if folks like my ancestors would have known that human beings would not be allowed to be as cattle bought and sold at auction."

Thus, a Civil War.

"Hey, it was legal and moral in their eyes."

So with Buchenwald and Auschwitz.