To: Jay Dardenne, Lieutenant Governor and Governor John Bel Edwards
Americans Native to the Southern Region Need a New Paradigm: An Unifying Flag Should be Established
Many Americans native to the southern region love their home region and enjoy varied and positive symbols of the region, but we also need a new and fuller paradigm about how to think of ourselves and each other.
Governors of southern states should establish or use an existing cultural commission to discuss the region's rich and mutually influencing culture with the purpose of establishing, in some manner by the people, a new and unifying flag as an informal regional symbol that represents all southerners and the region's historic diversity, accomplishments, and offerings to our country.
Governors of southern states should establish or use an existing cultural commission to discuss the region's rich and mutually influencing culture with the purpose of establishing, in some manner by the people, a new and unifying flag as an informal regional symbol that represents all southerners and the region's historic diversity, accomplishments, and offerings to our country.
Why is this important?
Southerners of all backgrounds are generally a proud group. Home is generally important to southerners. Yet, all people native to the southern region need and deserve a fuller and accurate paradigm about how they think of themselves, how they think of each other, how others think of them, and a new and positive symbol to represent that paradigm. The confederate flag does not speak for me and many others native to the south. I have long wanted to see the confederate flag only in museums as an artifact of history. I have also long thought that a new flag, a new symbol of home, that unifies the diverse people in the southern region would be healing and valuable to the region's social psychology and to the country's social psychology.
I believe that a cultural commission that is diverse and representative of the South's historical and mutually influencing diversity would be a positive experience for the region and the country especially if covered by the media (C-Span, PBS, et al.) for which the goal is to identify an informal regional flag that represents the distinct and shared gifts from the southern region.
I believe that a cultural commission that is diverse and representative of the South's historical and mutually influencing diversity would be a positive experience for the region and the country especially if covered by the media (C-Span, PBS, et al.) for which the goal is to identify an informal regional flag that represents the distinct and shared gifts from the southern region.