re: Ole Miss student senate votes to remove state flag.

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I was talking about a total now you are talking about a specific state.

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No, you were talking, I was actually quoting. There's a difference.

But yes, I quoted from one state's article, there are others:

In Georgia's very first paragraph it states:

The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery.

In Georgia's article of secession, "slave"/"slavery" is mentioned 35 times.

South Carolina's, 18 times.

Here's what an Alabama politician said in a speech linked to earlier in the thread:

The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.

So maybe you disagree with all those other fellows I happen to agree with, but that is what THEY were saying AT THE TIME.

Were they saying other things? Yes. Ultimately what they were fighting for was their way of life. Their way of life, however was contingent on the enslavement of human beings, and the repression of the lower classes by restricting their God-given rights as recognized in the US Constitution. They wanted an aristocracy run with the firm hand of the state government.

So the Confederacy promoted states' rights, what about individual liberty? Where did they stand on that issue?