A Southerner, Decorated War Veteran, Looks At John McCain By Mike Scruggs

"The Confederate flag is offensive in many, many ways, as we all know.  It is a symbol of racism and slavery."—John McCain, January 9, 2000, South Carolina

I have several things in common with John McCain. We are both combat veterans of the Vietnam War; we both have ancestors who served in the Confederate Army; and we are both long-term Republicans.

But I am a Southerner. I love my people, and I am justly proud of our heritage. Senator McCain has demonstrated time and time again that he has little appreciation for the South, its people, or their heritage. He has also demonstrated that he is either ignorant of the causes of the so-called "Civil War" or that he is a slave to political correctness and especially to political expedience.

I suspect there are large measures of both historical ignorance and political expedience reflected in John McCain’s statements about the South and the Southern Cross—the Confederate Battle Flag.

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