If there is going to be another civil war, (kind of a strange name....huh) isn't going to be over states rights or over who loves their country more. It is going, to be the "haves" vs. the "have nots". Rich people will be against the poor people. In theroy, the Confederacy should have won, their leaders were from west point academy, (Robt. E. Lee,...), and the soldiers were fighting from anger, and rage against a persistantly nosy Union. The union soldiers, and leaders were from the farm fields, and a few were trained soldiers, not too mention severely outnumbered. My question is, are you a patriot for fighting against your own homeland. I would say no, that would make you a treasonous citizen. Not a rebel, or outlaw, in this day an age we need solidarity as americans. If you are classified politically as a conservative,, (as I am) then you probably are a Confederate, politically speaking. You may belive in smaller govt. control, (do we really need a referandom on ketchup) tax relief, and things like that. In the civil war this was a polar opposite, the south was mainly democrats, and the union was republicans. Either way we need the confederate flag, because, members of our families right or wrong died for that flag, as well as the american flag.