The Confederacy was a creation of Southern Democrats. How ironic that people who I assume consider themselves conservatives,i.e Republicans venerate them so.
I don’t venerate the Confederacy, they deserved to loose. It is a totally different thing to strip the cultural heritage and ancestry of an entire region of America to salve the “hurt” feelings of an aggressive, duicitous, grifting group of professional victims. They are talking about Taliban tactics: destroying monuments, forbidding relatives from placing Confederate flags on the gravesites of their Confederate, removing statues. It is cultural genocide that is typically followed by actual genocide.
When Europeans were conquering the New World they did the same thing to the natives and they ended up on the wrong side of history and DEAD.
The flag and monuments represent our ancestors who fought and died for the south. There is nothing wrong with that and it will never change.