Why would you say this in Minnesota? People there don't give a crap about Confederate statues.
Northern states are full of hicks who proudly display Confederate flags despite their own ancestors were shot by people brandishing those flags. Trump rallies are where you are as bound to find those morons as anywhere.
Wrong.
You can't just say something's wrong because you haven't personally experienced it. I can tell you there are tons of Confederate flags in rural PA, MD, NJ and upstate NY. Nowadays they're more likely to be accompanied by the blue lives matter and the no steppy on snek, but they haven't gone away.
Since PA, MD, NJ and NY =/= ND, I would say that your posts are not mutually exclusive.