No. A people that stand for what they believed in and endured a tyrant that fired on women and children and destroyed their homes. Whenever they were loosing a battle they would turn their guns and cannons on the nearest southern town and take revenge on the women and children. Then order his troops to steal all of their belongings and burn their homes. Drove them off their land with General order # 11 and pretty much was as close to Hitler as the US has ever had in office. Lincoln desired a centralized government and violated the constitutional right of the states to succeed among many other rights that our forefathers fought to receive from England during the revolutionary war. Imprisoned his own representatives when they disagreed with his opinions, jailed or destroyed newspaper offices that refused to agree with his agenda even in the north. Abolished the Writ of Habeus Corpus. And the list goes on. And then the south had to suffer for years after the war during the so called reconstruction. People need to study real history and not what is taught in government ( public ) schools and institutions. Check out the current League of the South, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and other various Southern websites and you will see that the LOS members still stand for the same principles that our relatives did in the 1860s. Morals, Christian values, states rights among many other things. As well as the belief that the Constitution is not a living document. The organization is growing in size and with the amount of politicians trying to remove all signs of southern heritage from the south it has grown by leaps and bounds with people trying to support their heritage before it is all gone. Heritage not Hate is what the flags are being flown under and whether the politically correct folks like it or not we are here to stay and support our forefathers.