@sneakypete
I am guessing you didn't notice or didn't want to acknowledge the many pics of the idiots in robes at this rally. I stand 100% behind every post in this thread. I am a southern preservationist for any reasons (including my tagline), and absolutely detest the Klan and their ilk for hijacking the CBF, and creating the backlash toward icons of southern heritage.
Didn't expect an apology in any case.
While there are many pics, count them. Really, count the individuals. The line is never more than two deep, there are lots of angles, but not a lot of different faces.
It reeks of the sort of photography done with CNN setting up the Muslims protesting terrorism, another group with thin ranks well imaged to appear much more numerous.
I'd wager between neonazis and the Klan folks there were not fifty present.
There are a lot of people who would, like you or I, protest (as we are doing here) the destruction of the heritage of people who were militarily forced
back into the United States. The state I came from (and in which my heritage goes back to early colonial times) was occupied for the duration and only released after it had replaced its Constitution, years after the war. My ancestors fought that like anyone who had their home overrun by invading armies would. To see that heritage besmirched by those who claim to support its preservation, and destroyed by the other side is a source of constant vexation.
Now that the issue returns to this Republic with California making secessionist noises (for more marxist motives), the question arises of whether the Union will invade and burn their cities, destroy their industry, blockade their ports, rip up their rail lines, and loot their fields like they did to the South.