#6: The Confederate Flag

March 11, 2008 by Precious Roy

As popular as it is controversial, perhaps nothing White Trash People like is as misunderstood at the Confederate Flag.

Most sensible people see the Dixie Flag as a symbol of ignorance and racism. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

From a sociological perspective, the flag is a statement about pride in their Southern heritage. It’s a way of being a Southerner and resisting the perceived dominance of the North simply by hanging a piece of cloth in their window.

In this context, it’s also a way of saying, “I have better things to do with my money than spend it on curtains.”

From a political perspective the flag really has nothing to do with slavery or the segregationist Jim Crows laws that were enacted in the wake of Reconstruction. Instead, the Confederate flag is really about about states rights.

Specifically: the right to own slaves and count them as the 3/5th of a person that they really are.

But more than any of that, waving a confederate flag is actually a sentimental statement about how history plays out. It’s a way for a White Trash man to say, “If the South had won the Civil War, I would be mustachioed plantation owner with a Southern Belle of a wife in clad in spine-curving corset and petticoat and we would sit on the porch of our mansion and sip lemonaide while overlooking our acres and acres of cotton fields being worked by as a race of biologically inferior people as is my birthright. Instead I live in a trailer with a garden of rusted auto parts out front.”

That’s why the stars and bars is really about.