I am writing in response to the letters written by Timothy Kroh and Alise Sears dealing with the issue of the Confederate flag. I was very upset by these letters because these two people and many others like them feel that they know exactly what the flag stands for even though they are only listening to what others tell them. I grew up mostly in the South. The flag represents the pride of the Old South. One of those things was fighting the Civil War.
Most people believe that they only fought in order to keep the right to own slaves.
This is entirely untrue. The South declared war because the government was trying to impose what they felt were unfair taxes on them. The government decided to hike taxes on exporting cotton. They knew that the south would have to pay because they did not have the capacity to export their own products. This tax would have proved to be financially devastating to many of the Southerners.