Save Just What, Exactly? 0
I have found that those who trumpet most loudly their own patriotism, those most likely to wrap their bodies in the stars and stripes (in violation of the Flag Code, by the way, but that is quite another issue) while waving the Stars and Bars–the flag of treason, for Pete’s sake–are also those most likely to reject the idea that “all men are created equal,” however imperfectly it might have been practiced at the time of the Founding.
Rather, they would will restore if they could can America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
I say this as one whose ancestors wore the grey.
I’m a Southern Boy who grew up under Jim Crow.
I know racism when I see it.