The First of Many

So I guess this is my blog. I've never had one before. I'm sure there will be more bullshit on this blog than I, or anyone,can handle.
This week I've been quite angry with people trying to tarnish Confederate history by calling the Southern Rebels of the 1860s "terrorists" and "white supremacists". It also seems like you can't even defend yourself on this topic if you're on the pro-Confederacy side of the issue without being labeled a racist. It burns me up inside to think that my ancestors fought and died for a cause that was legal, and were subsequently denied these rights and slaughtered in a needless war. Thomas Jefferson wrote in our Declaration of Independence that secession is a right that our country was founded on. "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Virginia's state flag was adopted in 1861 and it exemplifies our struggle against the tyranny that was Great Britain. It shows Lady Virtue standing over Tyranny (whose crown has fallen off) with a big spear. At the bottom, the words "Sic Semper Tyrannus" are shown. This means "And thus always to tyrants".
When almost one half of a nation decides that it cannot live with an ever strengthening federal government that encroached on our rights more and more every single day, they have the right to shrug off the chains of tyranny. Our nation was founded on the power of small state governments. State's rights. After the War of Northern Aggression (The Civil War), state's rights were a thing of the past. "Hoorah, hoorah. For Southern rights, hoorah"