Come on. As we have seen recently in Amherst, Massachusetts, Madison, Wisconsin, and countless other places, people will find just about anything "divisive" whether the country's at war or not. The battle flag of the Confederacy is a proud emblem of our region. As a symbol of legitimate states' rights, it must be defended -- both from the PC crowd who wish to ban it and the racist clods who wish to appropriate it.
The promoters of "New History" are hard at work these days to alter our collective understanding of the past as it truly was. The Southern banner (in all its various versions) simply must not disappear. To deny its legitimate place in our culture is essentially to deny that (1) the Southern states were in their rights to withdraw from the union, and (2) the war waged against them is one of the most stunning outrages of history. And neither of those facts must ever be denied.