The scale of the civil war is pretty much unimaginable to Americans today. At a time when the census pegged the population at only about 31 million there were roughly 620,000 killed.

Contrast that with 407,000 American deaths in WW-II when our population was over 132 million.

Almost everyone in every town and city personally knew people who had died in the war as one out of every seventeen males had been killed. It was vicious beyond any possible modern comparison and an almost unthinkable tragedy.

That is what the Confederate battle flag stands for even if you’re so dense as to deny the role of slavery in the cause of it.

These people (you included Jeb) are sick in the head. :(