Southern Pride

posted by u/jenniebreeden · 2026-10-28 18:04 UTC

## Top comments

1. u/NobodyLikedThat1 · 2026-10-28 19:09 UTC

they will absolutely not understand the irony.

2. u/Capable-Cat7417 · 2026-10-28 20:45 UTC

The strongest person claims the land.

This is circus. This whole fucking website is.

Go seize your future! Make a country! It's been done before, do it again!

3. u/Dewey_Really_Know · 2026-10-28 21:25 UTC

I mean this dude isn't exactly wrong. However, strength takes many forms. For example, the continentals defeated the world's then-greatest empire to found the Union.

Keep making noise about what is wrong. This site can be a circus because, on some level, it is supposed to be - unlike the Executive Branch.

Oh, and do your civic duty (vote)!

4. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 18:20 UTC

Something something heritage (except I see confederate flags up North all the time lol)

The most comical kind of hypocrit are the people who got mad about kneeling during the anthem, but also have a confederate flag

5. u/Ooficus · 2026-10-28 18:29 UTC

I can not wait for my prissy lil southern ass to see a confederate flag when I move back up north (I’m originally from the the south). Heritage my ass.

6. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 18:32 UTC

Its just really wierd when you see someone in Wisconsin or Minnesota with a Confederate flag. Like did you miss history class for all of primary education lol?

7. u/Aeroshe · 2026-10-28 18:58 UTC

My neighbor in northern Indiana growing up flew a confederate flag. I think part of his family may have been from the south originally but I was little and the details seemed vague.

On that note, a lot of the civil war education I got as a kid focused more on the "tragic brother vs brother" narrative. Slavery was taught mostly as a background detail. This was in the 90s.

Edit: It should be noted this was in a poor purely white county who's primary exports were corn and meth, so ya know.... not exactly the pinnacle of civilization.

8. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 19:00 UTC

I dont know if its still the case, but I was told that in Southern textbooks the Civil War used to be called "The War of Northern Aggression"

9. u/sdmichael · 2026-10-28 19:11 UTC

I heard the phrase "Old Abe Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression" at a mine tour in Virginia City, Nevada, which helped fund the North.

10. u/SirJamesGhost · 2026-10-28 21:26 UTC

Yeah, that is fairly common apparently. Despite the Confederates being the first ones to attack, bombarding an off-shore federal fort.

11. u/Ooficus · 2026-10-28 18:38 UTC

It’s already weird in the south, like brother, my homo relationship has lasted longer than the confederacy.

12. u/Kennedy_KD · 2026-10-28 18:52 UTC

Or in New Mexico, like dude last time the confederates were here we kicked their ass and we weren even a proper army

13. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 19:02 UTC

Didnt New Mexico become a state well after the end of the Civil War?

14. u/Kennedy_KD · 2026-10-28 19:05 UTC

Yes but there was still people there

15. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 19:06 UTC

Interesting. I guess I didnt recall/realize that some of the fighting happened in territories

16. u/epsilon-4142 · 2026-10-28 20:19 UTC

People from the south can move

Not that I support that but. They can

17. u/Brave_Committee_4886 · 2026-10-28 18:34 UTC

The most comical confederate flag I saw was in West Virginia (a state formed by succession from Virginia proper during the civil war, in order to remain part of the Union) in a town called Grantsville. (Named after the Union General Ulysses S. Grant, who famously beat Confederate General Robert Lee at the battle of the Appomattox.) Like there could not be a worse place for a confederate flag.

18. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 18:38 UTC

I suppose I shouldnt be all that surprised that this was the result of the West Virginia education system

19. u/Wereking2 · 2026-10-28 18:57 UTC

I am from Minnesota the literal first state to volunteer troops to Lincoln/The Union and who helped stopped the confederates at the battle for Cemetery’s Ridge at Gettysburg suffering 70% casualties while being outnumbered 5 to 1 walking away with Virginias 28th battle flag after capturing it during Picketts Charge to this day. You’d think knowing that no one would dare fly a confederate flag, but nope in rural Minnesota it’s a minority but there’s quite a few.

Edit: forgot to mention where the flag was captured.

20. u/Dazed_and_Confused44 · 2026-10-28 19:03 UTC

That level of stupidity and/or ignorance is mind boggling to me