Was Dylann Roof Driven to Mass Murder by the Confederate Flag, Or Was It Sheer Insanity?

Tragic events in Charleston, South Carolina last week have caused disparate interests to join forces in denouncing the Confederate Flag, the South, and Southern people in general. Although the great American civil war ended 150 years ago, the vitriol against the South and Southerners has not ended. In fact, based on the way the South is portrayed in the media, motion pictures, and other venues, one whom did not know better might wrongly conclude that the Confederate States were victorious in the war, and that it was savages of the Confederacy that burned Union states to the ground, and relegated the defeated Union to second-class, inferior status forever, and committed other unspeakable crimes against the social, economic, and cultural heritage of the vanquished Union.