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I grew up in GA but now I live in PA and occasionally make a trip to Gettysburg. There are multiple tour offerings including self guided one that I prefer, which allows you to take your time soaking in everything that happened in that place. This Civil War is an incredible part of our history, and I would venture to bet 99% of Americans today are pleased with the outcome. 99% of them also now believe the end of slavery was a good thing. As a nation and a people we became better as a result of that war. Gettysburg is a powerful monument to that progress and something I think every American would benefit from experiencing. If the statues of confederate solders (and even union solders) were to be torn down, it would be a like erasing our past. We learn from our past. Erasing it is a scary thought, and might just have the opposite effect on future generations.
Changing a state flag, to represent who we are today and how we have evolved as a unified people, by removing historic symbols of the confederacy that offend and threaten a group of people, is unequivocally the right thing to do. But calling the star-spangled banner a symbol of white supremacy is untrue and dangerous. It is a symbol that unites us and a symbol that a lot of brave men and women (of all races) have bleed and died for. Misrepresenting it to be a symbol for anything else is the work of evil forces. As Americans we should all fight against those forces to preserve what unites us.
Just about anything at all that is a problem for Florida is a good thing!!!