aggressor of that war was the federal government

There is a lot of history that led to the Civil War, and men born before the founding witnessed the Civil War. I'm aware of the blockades and the reasons people call it "The War of Northern Aggression". We were (and still are) a young nation.The differences in opinion on the slavery question were always present between different states, even before the Revolution.

They own you and they won't let you go

Kind of like slave-owning southerners who lacked all moral integrity and violated natural law and human rights in the worst of ways. I'm aware it was a small percentage of people who owned slaves, but just about every non-slave in the south benefitted from slavery in some way.

The Confederate flag is terrible optics and I don't agree with it being used in imagery with President Trump. I don't think he would either.

aggressor of that war was the federal government

There is a lot of history that led to the Civil War, and men born before the founding (witnessed)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Men_of_the_Revolution] the Civil War. I'm aware of the blockades and the reasons people call it "The War of Northern Aggression". We were (and still are) a young nation.The differences in opinion on the slavery question were always present between different states, even before the Revolution.

They own you and they won't let you go

Kind of like slave-owning southerners who lacked all moral integrity and violated natural law and human rights in the worst of ways. I'm aware it was a small percentage of people who owned slaves, but just about every non-slave in the south benefitted from slavery in some way.

The Confederate flag is terrible optics and I don't agree with it being used in imagery with President Trump. I don't think he would either.