Maybe it’s cause I’m a Yankee bastard but I don’t like how worked up either side gets about that stupid flag, as if it matters whether it’s flying or not. Flag/no flag, the tax rate is the same.
People can fly it on their lawn if they like associating themselves with failure so much, they can also put a pic of Jimmy Carter on their wall.
I tended to be indifferent on the issue ordinarily, BUT it was politicizing what was a deranged individual’s actions that had nothing to do with a flag and that spurred the ISIS-like destruction of history ever since. I’d have left the issue of keeping or removing the flag up to the voters, nothing more and nothing less.
Some people don’t really understand that flying a Confederate flag doesn’t necessarily mean support of the Confederacy itself, but for being a “rebel”, as in against the establishment. “The Dukes of Hazzard” were a premier example of that, it wasn’t about bringing back the Confederate government, it was about rebelling against the corrupt people in power.