[Idabilly]

Dr. Conn puts it well. The confederate flag is a symbol of treason, a crime of which every soldier who volunteered to fight for the confederacy is guilty.

As does Ann Coulter:

The Confederate battle flag today has nothing to do with race. It stands for a romantic image of a chivalric, honor-based culture that was driven down by the brute force of crass Yankee capitalism, which was better at manufacturing weapons than using them, and that shortly thereafter gave us the Grant administration and the Gilded Age. (We'll leave out trebling the average life span, ending chattel slavery, creating a world in which half the human race gets beaten up a whole lot less by the other half, and various other things that those money-grubbing followers of that awful Hobbes guy somehow accomplished despite caring only about making a buck.)

It stands for a proud military heritage shared by both blacks and whites in the South. The reverence for tradition and pride in historical antecedents are precisely what make Southerners, black and white, such stalwart patriots.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter020100.asp

[curiosity]

I agree that for most people today, the battle flag has nothing to do with race. However, it has everything to with treason.

It stands for a proud military heritage shared by both blacks and whites in the South.

I'm sorry, but to say that blacks somehow share in Confederate "military heritage" is just plain stupid.