The war of economic aggression against the South wasn't about slavery until Lincoln made it into that for political reasons. The north was ready to sue for peach in 1863, so Lincoln played the race card. Hell, he wanted to ship all the blacks back to Africa. His desires are still creating waves today in Liberia. Robert E. Lee said if the war had been about slavery, he would have fought for the north, which Lincoln asked him to do. No, the war was about economics, of which the slaves were a part. 'Dixie' is just an ode of honor to a region. Yet some people want to twist it. Lincoln didn't. When asked what song of celebration he wanted to hear the band play after the surrender of the South, he requested 'Dixie'. Played slow. And that's why he was killed. He would have got in the way of the carpetbaggers who wanted to rape the south and re-enslave the blacks. 'Dixie' and the Confederate flag are just red herrings. The same banking concerns that armed the South and the North and then touched off the separatist movement are still active today in Quebec and the American southwest and lots of other places around the world. Only, this time they are stronger. They will foment separatist movements, then when the break-aways occur, total enslavement will follow. Witness Yugoslavia, now a U.N. property. And people are being distracted with the political correctness of flags and songs.