You can't even blame that on Stewart. He was born and raised in Minnesota, and didn't move to Virginia until AFTER he gradated college.
He's just a northern boy who loves "southern heritage" and has some strange neo-confederate fetish, like Kid Rock.
It's the equivalent of rich white suburban kids who wanna be seen "cool" around their black urban friends by dressing and acting like this:
I didnt blame him. I just explained how it happens