The letter from Timothy J. Parker of Peachtree City moved me to sit down to my computer and give my thoughts on his letter.

Since Peachtree City has been overtaken by Yankees, I am assuming that Mr. Parker is from the North. Most people who fought for the C.S.A. were poor people who never owned a “darkie,” as you so gently put it. History tells most of us that the war started because we wanted representation for each state and not one governor up North to rule as leader for all the states, and slavery came up as an emancipation issue later in the war.

Most of us Southerners defend our flag, because it was a symbol of the South and, of course, anyone up North wants anything Southern to be wiped off the history books. It is also a well-known fact that as soon as a Yankee moves to the South, he wants to change everything to suit his Northern upbringing. Some of us remember when the South was strictly Southern and we had a gentler, kinder place to live.

But never mind the fact that the South has again been invaded by carpetbaggers, this country has gone to pot anyway; a good example of that was the Monica incident in the Whitehouse and the Democrats that voted to leave this man in office. Another example is the way that all the television stations made a hero out of a man who fled to England to avoid the draft. If everyone did that there would be no need for a civil rights movement, we would be like China, and everyone who goes against the government way of thinking would be killed by tanks and rifles.

So Mr. Parker, most of us from the South feel that it is our God-given right to fly the Confederate flag here in the South over every building we think plausible. Should you decide that is not reasonable, please feel free to go back up North and take a few thousand other carpetbaggers with you.

Frankly, my dear, most of us don't give a darn what you think, and your “darkie” idea offends most of us. Most Southerners are tired of being blamed for slavery. My family history had no slaves, nor did most Southerners, who were just poor dirt farmers, struggling to survive, and who suffered at the hands of the North and carpetbaggers. However, most of us today are a well-educated, well-informed people who won't be again a victim of the North.

LeGay Saul

Fayetteville

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