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are continually written about the joys of living in the South? Turn on a country music station sometime and you’ll hear what I mean. Southerner, black and white, love being Southerners. You don’t hear a lot of songs these days about the wonders of life in Ohio or New Jersey, do you?
Then too there is the recent and'remarkable growth of interest in the war Between the States, the crucible of the American experience. Check out any large bookstore or go to see an historical reenactment and you’ll quickly understand that interest and grasp the difference between Southern pride and human bigotry.
Pride was about all the South had left in 1865. That enduring pride has nothing to do with the Cause, which is historically arguable and ultimately moot. The Cause was lost, and a good thing for America. However, that enduring pride has everything to do with the effort, and the record of an army that is unsurpassed in valor against overwhelming odds.
They were our folks. In the context of our time, that part of their cause which would perpetuate the heinous institution of human slavery is indefensible. But they were our folks. And in the context of their time, they fought courageously to the last ditch to defend their homeland.
Those who lived in slavery were our people also. They, too, share a Southern heritage. And given the craven misuse of the St. Andrews flag by racists, it is easy to understand the feelings of those African-Americans who react to its display. But my experi
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