To the first point, buncombe. I explained above that this is all a put-up job engineered by the NAACP and the New York Times, a bunch of bloody-shirt-waving to spike up the black vote by showing black voters how they can empower black politicians to bullyrag, intimidate, and cow a bunch of gutless white businessmen and RiNO's, and humiliate The Man in a public kabuki theater of racist politics.
I pointed out that where the NAACP had neglected to be active and hateful, in Mississippi, black citizens had no such objections as have been alleged in the Carolinas, to legitimize the damnatio memoriae of the Confederate flag.
Your second point is that the Confederates lost -- so did the American militia, at Bunker Hill and later on Bennington (big time); and yet we still display those flags in their memory. I have both flags, and I'll be flying them in a few days.
Likewise the Alamo flag (yeah, I have one of those -- the real McCoy, Barrett Travis's Texian army pattern garrison flag that Sam Houston gave him). I'll fly that flag, too, and thumb my nose at the smoothly racist Castro brothers and their vitriolic guero-hating mother when I do so. Those people would get control of the Alamo, clean out the museum, and put an equestrian statue of Santa Anna in it. Like hell they will.
So I celebrate defeated armies and causes.
"Godda prollem wid dat?"
Actually the Patriot Militia won the Battle of Bennington and eventually the entire Revolutionary War. Big difference in outcomes there.
So I celebrate defeated armies and causes.
"Godda prollem wid dat?"
Not at all, and you don't need your state government's participation in order to do so.
You see, there are many citizens of South Carolina who see the Confederate Battle Flag symbol very differently than you do.
Given that that's the case, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the state government at some point will decide not to antagonize a significant portion of its population by placing such a controversial symbol on public grounds at the state capitol which is supposed to represent all South Carolinians.
The Battle Flag can readily be displayed in any number of places, such as private citizens, businesses, historical societies, and the like.
Even if it stands for Southern Heritage to 2/3 of South Carolina citizens, there's simply no compelling need or reason for the state government to endorse a symbol which might stand for slavery and oppression to the other 1/3 of its citizens.
Who knows? Maybe one day it will be displayed on the state grounds again!
This is just not the end of the world.