I found an interesting site titled "On Black Confederates". Here is an excerpt:
22. "Black Confederate heritage is beginning to receive the attention it deserves. For instance, Terri Williams, a black journalist for the Suffolk "Virginia Pilot" newspaper, writes: "I've had to re-examine my feelings toward the [Confederate] flag started when I read a newspaper article about an elderly black man whose ancestor worked with the Confederate forces. The man spoke with pride about his family member's contribution to the cause, was photographed with the [Confederate] flag draped over his lap that's why I now have no definite stand on just what the flag symbolizes, because it no longer is their history, or my history, but our history."

So often the Confederacy is painted as just a bunch of white racist slave owners fighting for the right to maintain a perverse inhumane culture, when in fact the Southern culture was far more complex.

Rubylox- I am a big fan of Tom Russell and Dave Alvin. Both Californians I believe. Basically, I like all roots music. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gamble Rogers (a Florida Boy), Paul Thorn, Doc Watson, and on and on and on. I like it all as long as it is not this overproduced commercial pablum that is served up daily on most media outlets with the solitary goal of appealing to the most base instincts of humanity. Sorry I am beginning to rant. Breathe easy folks.
Ron