It's always been a problem. It made "business-sense" to maintain the status quo. It's only been the last few years things have shifted in the right direction.
The economics of what?
The true cause of the war started with slavery and preservation of the union. The states that made the C.S.A. seceded solely because of it. It's in all of their declarations of secession and/or constitutions. It's in the C.S.A. constitution and that banned the banning of slavery. Their Vice President made sure to loudly and proudly claim their "new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea [of equality of races]; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
President Lincoln and the Union fought the war to preserve the U.S. They later added the ending of slavery to the cause.
Just, no.
No it's not.
No they're not. Well, some of them are. But not all of them. And not the majority. Unfortunately, the more you (and others here) bury their heads and ignore, well, everything... the more you are going to allow them to win.
Actually, no, it wasn't. Four states - Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina were the only states to declare "slavery" per se, in their articles of secession. The other 7 Confederate states...Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia did not.
Anyways...
As far as Mississippi's flag goes, I think we in Louisiana have more than enough bullcrap of our own to clean up. So much, in fact, if we'd mind our own business, we wouldn't have time to worry about what Mississippi's flag looks like or what the state tree of Delaware is.
Let the people of Mississippi to decide what's best for Mississippi.
Table 1The Fraction of Whites’ Incomes from Slavery State Percent of the Population That Were Slaves Per Capita Earnings of Free Whites (in dollars) Slave Earnings per Free White (in dollars) Fraction of Earnings Due to Slavery Alabama 45 120 50 41.7 South Carolina 57 159 57 35.8 Florida 44 143 48 33.6 Georgia 44 136 40 29.4 Mississippi 55 253 74 29.2 Louisiana 47 229 54 23.6 Texas 30 134 26 19.4 Seven Cotton States 46 163 50 30.6 North Carolina 33 108 21 19.4 Tennessee 25 93 17 18.3 Arkansas 26 121 21 17.4 Virginia 32 121 21 17.4 All 11 States 38 135 35 25.9 Source: Computed from data in Gerald Gunderson (1974: 922, Table 1)
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The kneeling and dispute over the flag have nothing to do with hatred for the United States. It is about the injustices experienced by said protesters. To make it about anything else takes away from their experiences and belittles them.
The NCAA, NASCAR, and C-USA can do what they want as private companies.
Anyone care to share what they said?
Well, it looks like MS is going to change their flag.
Good!
As a resident of MS, glad to see this happen.