White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

[Rahul]

I'll never understand why the fuck people are 'proud' of their confederate ancestors.  "My great great great grandfather died fighting in a war to preserve slavery!  And he fought on the side that wanted to preserve slavery!  So damn proud of him!"

The majority of Confederate soldiers did not own slaves nor did they come from a family that owned slaves.  Most of them fought because their home state was invaded.  Studies of surviving Confederate soldier diaries find slavery rarely mentioned.  Hatred toward invading "Yankees" was much more common.

This is part of the turning the Civil War into a comic book thing I was talking about.  Some did fight for slavery, but most did not.