No one gets the Confederate flag problem. I grew up in Mississippi surrounded by rebel battle flags, big and small, and I didn't get it then. I live in Mississippi now, and I still don't really know exactly what the flag means. It's a complicated symbol, with race at its center, and it's included in my state's official emblem. It certainly is an emblem of race violence. It also stands for southern defensiveness and anger at "outsiders" who sweep all folks down here into one big, racist tent. It stands for seething fury over the "Lost Cause," and the economic...