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...As a high school student in California, "I generally bucked authority and the rebel flag was just a way to express that attitude," Allen said in a written statement to the magazine. "Life is a learning experience and I have learned quite a bit in the ensuing 36 years."...

Corin,

As someone who was at the same time and place as Allen, I can confirm this 100%. I also wore a confederate pin in High School. Hell even some black kids did, it was no f'n big deal. We were as harmless as the idiots that chanted "Ho Ho Ho Chi-Min" at assemblies, or steaked the quad at lunchtime. It was a right of passage back then, and this was in southern California, where you would probably be expelled at a minimum for the same behavior today. Good place to be FROM.

All of this PC just about makes my head explode.