I remember the trips we would take trips to FL when I was a kid. I-95 wasn't fully completed yet so we traveled on US 301 through most of the Carolinas and Georgia. Other than Civil War related historic sites and cemeteries where Confederate soldiers are buried, as well as the old tourist traps along the way, you wouldn't see the Confederate flag much. IMO it's more prevelant now because the snowflakes are unable or unwilling to let sleeping dogs lie. In other words: