You know, Seebell, you can parade around your house buck naked with a black flag with the inscription "There is no god but the Federal government and Abraham is his prophet" for all I care.Buy a cd. Play Dixie at home all you want. No problem. If Tidewater wants to parade around his house in his confederate underwear while Dixie blasts away, hey, no problem.
As for a bunch of redneck yayhoos at Ole Miss in 1969, that can have no effect on what people did 110 years prior.
People in 1860 could side with the man who wrote (in response to "scientific racism" which alleged that African-Americans were not human beings):
or the man who wrote this to describe Washington DC:No Christian man, therefore, can give any countenance to speculations which trace the negro to any other parent but Adam. ... Let us not repudiate our kindred with the poor brethren whom He has scattered among us, and entrusted to our guardianship and care. Let us receive them as bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. Let us recognize them as having the same Father, the same Redeemer, and the same everlasting destiny.
(I'll leave it to your imagination to fill in the blanks. I won't repeat the man's vulgar language, but he was one of the "great men" of his side of the conflict.)On the whole, this is a mean God forsaken ____-ridden place. The _____s are certainly the most intelligent part of the population but the _____ smell I cannot bear, yet it is in on and about every thing you see. [The food is] cooked by ______s, until I can smell & taste the _____.”
I'll choose the former rather than the latter.