Interesting. As I said in my post way up above, keeping the flag up on the capitol is not the desire of most South Carolinians. The last survey I saw was two-thirds against and rising. We could rehash the issues about the civil war forever but it is naive to think a)that it had nothing to do with slavery (look at all the fighting in Congress, sometimes literally, all through the 1850's--remember the Dred Scott decision?) b)that most people who fought were defending their homeland. There was no fighting at all in the part of SC where my ancestors were, but some of them did go, which, with love and respect in my heart I say was a bad decision. I hope that if anybody remembers anything about me when I'm dead a hundred years, it will not be my bad decisions. I can't tell people how to feel about such issues. Hang the flag in your yard. Show it to your children in hopes that they will be inspired to learn some history, but it is certainly not proper to hang an heirloom on a government flagpole (on the state capitol no less) that was meant for displaying the legal symbols of political sovereignty, the national and state flags. I think it would be just as proper to hang Grandma's drawers up there.

We are not all idiots here. It's just that the idiots are loud.

Chet