Real Southern Pride
Some people won't recognize this flag.
Everyone knows this one:
The first one is the first official flag of the Confederate States of America; a Pre-War flag almost as it was abandoned for the stars and bars over a white field shortly after the war began. The final version of the CSA flag was completed after the Battle of Ft. Sumpter (which was the first blow of aggression from the North).
I just wanted to illustrate the point that if you truly have southern pride, you will fly the CSA flag, Not the Confederate army's flag, not the battle flag, but the flag that symbolized the secession from the oppressive Union. The flag that symbolized the spirit behind the separation that triggered the American Civil War.
When you fly the Confederate Army flag or Battle flag then you are symbolizing a desire for conflict, for aggravation and for fighting.
No true patriot would desire these things. A patriot desires peace and the ability to challenge ideals and change his government without bloodshed. This was the desire of those who established the Confederacy. To take power away from the wealthy elite who were manipulating markets and who were ruling the country without full representation from the Southern states.
Like modern wars, the American Civil War was fought over resources. The Northern states knew that without free trade access to the agricultural resources of the South that they would suffer, struggle and fail as the Industrial revolution had not yet occurred. So instead of allowing the Confederacy to stand, the bloodiest war in American history was waged. Not over slave's rights to be free; but over access to the resources of the South.
Following the war, carpetbaggers flooded the region to secure the trade interests of the Northern states and cruel sharecropping practices broke down the Independence of farming as well as obliterating the plantation era. It took nearly a century for the South to begin recovery from the economic terrorism wrought against it by the North after the war only to find out that the Northern industrial complexes had given rise to lobbyists who would perpetuate the problem.
Any true red-blooded southerner would refuse to vote for a representative who favors industry over individual liberty.
Any red-blooded southerner would look for candidates who wish to reinforce the powers granted to the States by the Constitution and uphold individual liberties rather than a dominating federal government.
This is the core ideology of what the civil war was fought over: The states have power and ability to govern themselves is superior to the governance of a centralized federal government and individual liberties are second to nothing else.
Bring your Southern Pride with you to the polls and vote as a true Southerner. Vote for freedom, vote for a small federal government, vote for state sovereignty and vote for the Constitution.