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This is one of the issues that will to continue to keep minorities out of the GOP. There is nothing wrong with celebrating your heritage, southern, northern, eastern or western, nothing wrong with pointing to the flag as a symbol of your pride, but you have to remember what that flag represents to many african americans. To them it is a symbol of rasicm and slavery. No amount explaining to them that that is not what it represents to you is going to matter to them. The flag is racist, period.

SO the only issue now is to decide how the party is going to react when this issue continues to pop up. Does the party and it's leaders denounce the flag? Show that they are sensitive to the concerns of African Americans? Try to get some of these people to actually consider voting GOP? Or do they continue to embrace the flag, poo pooing the concerns of African Americans, pretty much guaranteeing only about 10-20 percent of their vote?

"Tell the whites and the blacks, he didn't give a tinker's damn about the way they felt; grow up, get over it."

Hope you don't mind PTBOR, that I borrowed your quote, but it seems fitting.