Justice for Dixie--the Census will hear from Confederate Southerners.

While I am aware that there are Southerners who do display "Confederate pride" in the form of the "Battle Flag of the Confederacy" being posted as a bumper sticker on their wheels--as, due to discrimination, I suppose they are prevented from going the full-General-Lee route, maybe this action will bring the weary eyes of a nation to focus upon the Americans left behind by so many, many....

Wait--


Didn't they lose the Civil War, or was I just totally high that week in high school? Wasn't that over a hundred and something years ago--which totally means none of these present-day people fought in the Civil War? And what exactly is "Confederate" about them? Do they still think the slavery was all right, or are they mostly just p-o'd about the desegregation, now?

And do we need to point out they are "white"? I'm not sure what exactly recognition for something long past does for them. There's no space on my Census form for pointing out that the "Potato Famine and the Know-Nothings didn't keep my ancestors' refugee-asses down" or "We Kept Our German Names through the Great War, so suck it." Or even "Something like 1/32nd of my ancestors were totally Indians so this Land is my Land". So whither the cause for signifying for the Confederacy?

I am one confused Yankee.