I'm a resident of that not-too-southern state of Wisconsin. Just down the road from my rural house is a farm whose inhabitants have a large painting of the southern battle flag on one of the barns. I don't know these people and have no way of knowing if they're transplanted southrons or not. Furthermore, I don't care. It's a source of amusement to me. And I'm on the North's side in the Civil War as far as feelings about who was right or wrong concerning the war go. Let the flags stay up on private property. I've noticed that the more some people get agitated about the rebel flag, the more southerners (who see it as a sign of defiance among other reasons) will get their backs up.
How about a swap: the southrons give up their flag when the black nationalists give up all their separatist songs, symbols, laws, and rhetoric? You know the latter is not going to happen. As it stands I'd rather have the southrons on my side than all the anti-American Afrocentrists. They (southrons) may be stubborn as mules, but you can count on them in times of crisis. Could you count on the Al Sharptons, Jesse Jacksons, and others of their ilk? Obviously not.