North Carolina Forward and Backward

Armor has, to his advantage, a tremendously strong sense of integrity- much moreso than Taylor- but Armor is also more conservative. I am not sure who Shuler would have a better chance against. Hopeful Taylor will get bruised up in the GOP primaries and flanked from the conservative side with accusation of being a crook, but win nonetheless. Then, in the general he would already be seen as unethical, and that would be enough to push some folks off the fence and into our backyard.

These people delude themselves into thinking they are celebrating the underdog fighting ability of the Confederate Army - which kicked the Union Army's ass far more often than it should have based on size and equipment. Only one problem with that:

Many people generally recognized this flag as the symbol of the South but it never flew over any official building in the Confederacy. It was not the official flag of the Confederate States of America nor the Battle flag. It was flown primarily on Confederate naval vessels, and was also used by a few units in the'Army of Tennessee', one of the main forces in the Western field of operations. Today it is the most commonly seen Confederate flag, mainly because its dimensions are similar to those of the United States flag and this is convenient for the flag manufacturers.

There was no single battle flag of the Confederacy, but the Blue Bonnie was the flag of "the South".

Many states used variations of this flag, but not all of the lone star flags were blue many were of other colors as were the stars. But the single star ties them all together. In January 1861 Mississippi officially adopted the 'Bonnie Blue Flag' and it was incorporated as a canton in the flag of the new Republic of Mississippi. With Mississippi's secession document being signed on the 9 January 1861 a ceremony was held at the capitol building at Jackson when large blue flag bearing a single white star, the 'Bonnie Blue Flag', was raised over the building. While to the people this flag represented 'The South' and the Confederate government considered it along with others as the national flag.