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unable_afternoon 3 points ago +3 / -0

it’s just the regional flag of the south. I’m reminded of that video of Angela Markel taking away a german flag from a fellow german politician. He was waving it around and she snatched it up and put it away. Her loyalty is to the European Union, and how does she view the german flag? Does it represent the german people, ancestry, and countless years of german culture and tradition? No, to her Germany is just holocaust & evil nazis and that’s it, and to have national pride is just one step away from seceeding from the union.
Another similarity is that before the civil war America was referred to as plural rather than singular, so if we were going to war they would say “the United States are going to war”. Before the civil war America was viewed similarly to how the European Union is viewed, rather than as typical single country.