Dear Yankees, Thanks But No Thanks

You gotta be kidding me.   Of all the insulting, inane, ridiculous, arrogant, self-serving things in the news today is this one:  Yankees redesign the Confederate flag.   Can you imagine?  Northeastern blue blood liberal fascists (down here south of the Mason-Dixon line we just call 'em Yankees) at National Public Radio spent y'all's hard earned tax dollars to redesign the Confederate flag.  Why, in God's name, would anyone do that?  And by what moral authority?  To further piss off us Southerners, and spit in our collective faces?  Mercy me, I guess so.   

Torn And Frayed But NEVER Forgotten

First off, I wonder which flag this lame design is supposed to replace?  The battle flag?  Or the three national flags?  Do these history revisionists even know the difference?  Probably not.  As a public service, I'll help them out.  The emblematic battle flag shown here was present in the upper left hand field on all but one - well, actually two - of the Confederate National flags.  The Southern Cross as it was called - the battle flag - consists of a blue Cross of St. Andrew trimmed in white - a tribute to the South's extensive bonny blue Scottish heritage - with thirteen white stars, representing the Confederate states, over a red field.  The stars represent the original 7 coastal Confederate States of South Carolina (December 20, 1860), Mississippi (January 9, 1861), Florida (January 10, 1861), Alabama (January 11, 1861), Georgia (January 19, 1861), Louisiana (January 26, 1861), and Texas (February 1, 1861), and subsequently Virginia (April 17, 1861), Arkansas (May 6, 1861), Tennessee (May 7, 1861), North Carolina (May 21, 1861). Efforts to secede failed in Kentucky and Missouri although those states were represented by two of the thirteen stars.

It's A Joke, Folks!

The NPR design is a nonsensical, featureless - dare I say faggoty - mess with no soul or representative meaning whatsoever.  But I guess our Yankee betters know what love for the South still beats in the hearts of Confederates, and are willing and able to design that representation for us.  As if we needed - or wanted - to change it.  My God!  What arrogance.  Well, it's that arrogant northern hubris that caused all that carnage 155 years ago in the first place, isn't it?  So little has changed.  Anyway, aside from the fact that no self respecting Southerner will do anything beyond laugh at this nonsense, it's all just an in-your-face insulting joke.  

Dear Yankees:  Thanks, but no thanks.