The SEC is now saying the state has to change their state flag or there will be no SEC championships played in the state.Ah, but they can fly their state flag ...
Georgia did away with the "battle flag" part of their state flag several years ago, but Mississippi is still holding out. Their governor recently said that it was up to the people to decide if it should be changed and wants a referendum on it.
Whites still outnumber blacks in Mississippi and no one knows how a potential vote might go.
They only added the "battle flag" to their state flag in 1894 during the height of the "Lost Cause" movement and as a slap in the face to those who were for equal rights. It was done for very racist reasons and everyone can agree to on that fact.
Will Ole Miss ban the Rebel flag?
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I say complex in the sense that it has been overly simplified as war started to free the slaves (when it was actually not started to end slavery), and it reality the South seceded for numerous motivators (ie. tariffs, political, etc)... and complex in the sense that it was not 1 single movement, but a movement in each state, with some states having secessionist governments in exile such as Missouri and Kentucky.
And there were two waves of secession, the Deep South, and then the upper South, which did not secede until Lincoln called up a force of 75,000 volunteers with the intention of bringing the Deep South back into the Union.
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According to Thomas Jefferson and our Declaration of Independence, it was NOT treason. He specifically states the rationale for "dissolving the bonds". It was a reaction for years of the British crown considering the colonists subjects, not Englishmen. Apply Locke's "social contract" here.
In addition, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Adams and the other founders derived the source of their ideas from the Enlightenment philosophers of Europe such as John Locke, Voltaire, Montesqieu (sp.), etc.
I have no doubt prevailing thought will eventually call it treason, being one of the factors in discarding the U.S. Constitution and creating an entirely new form of government.
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If we had lost, all of them would have been hung for treason. They knew what they were doing and what the stakes were.
Of course they knew the consequences. What is significant is the reasons that motivated them to take such a risk.
It would all depend on how you would measure success in such said endeavor.
