Salute! The "Stars and Bars" was the first national flag of the Confederate States of America and used during the first 2 years of the war (from March 4, 1861 until May 1, 1863). It has two red stripes separated by a white stripe, symbolizing courage, purity, and truth, respectively, with each star representing a state. (video of the recently removed Confederate Memorial in Edenton, North Carolina) The design deliberately echoed the U.S. Stars and Stripes, reflecting the Confederacy's inherited

"Southerners, by a vast majority, are God-fearing, traditional conservatives—we are a people, not an ideology. The United States of America, today (better described as the Yankee Empire), is a nation ruled by a money-worshiping elite who adhere to an anti-Christian, secular-humanist, leftist ideology. They are typically referred to as liberals or progressives. They dominate our social, political and to a large degree, our religious life. Yet despite all the slanderous, anti-South, anti-Christian