Southron posters: Have you ever owned any Confederate flag mechandise?

[Mr. Illini]

I was traveling this weekend to see family, so yesterday I was at the toll booth getting ready to get off the PA turnpike and onto I-79 when I found an SUV in front of me. The guy had a bumper sticker on the back window that read, "The US Constitution: Frustrating liberals since 1789!" Below it was a rebel flag sticker. Michigan plate. Needless to say, I don't think he understands much about history (wonder how he would have liked being a slave?), or whatever he thinks he knows was filtered through some nutcase, and he probably doesn't know much about the Confederacy. The Confederacy is a twisted, idealized conservative paradise, I guess.

Should've given him the "northern salute"

[Mr. Illini]

I was traveling this weekend to see family, so yesterday I was at the toll booth getting ready to get off the PA turnpike and onto I-79 when I found an SUV in front of me. The guy had a bumper sticker on the back window that read, "The US Constitution: Frustrating liberals since 1789!" Below it was a rebel flag sticker. Michigan plate. Needless to say, I don't think he understands much about history (wonder how he would have liked being a slave?), or whatever he thinks he knows was filtered through some nutcase, and he probably doesn't know much about the Confederacy. The Confederacy is a twisted, idealized conservative paradise, I guess.

The funny thing is, unless you equate racism or the simple characteristic of being from the South with conservatism (as I'm sure several red avatars do), there wasn't much conservative about the CSA.  It certainly wasn't run with small government principles, it certainly wasn't very fiscally conservative and it only respected the Constitution when it felt it was on its side...

Because that's certainly the universally accepted definition of conservatism