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Originally Posted by mac03
Umm... last time I checked prior to the emancipation proclaimation, every state in the Union had slavery... not just the states that joined the Confederacy.
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Then check again.
This falls under the same response I gave to sob.
Also, if you were posting in an attempt to refute my point, your statement doesn't have anything to do with mine.
I listed the states I was referring to--none of them are flying the "state's rights flag" even though they are embattled with the federal government over numerous issues currently. This doesn't have anything to do with who did or did not allow slavery in the past. It had to do with the claim that the Confederate flag only stood for "state's rights." If it did, state's rights advocates across the nation would use it; they don't, however, it's only flown in the regions that owned and fought over the state's "right" to own slaves.
If it stood for state's rights in regards to medical marijuana or gay marriage, there'd be a whole bunch of Confederate flags flying around California.
BTW, The states I referred to outlawed slavery decades before the Emancipation Proclamation.