The flag is a total non-issue until the NAACP, ACLU, et al start telling you that they are going to try to get the rest of the country to boycott your state. People tend to get a little pissed off by such fascist tactics, and respond by keeping the symbol that pisses the fascists off.
Do you know? Ideologically, I'm center-left and I don't have a problem with the Confederate flag at all - but both me, and my mother, can't stomach it when the GOP use it for their political ends
I don't really think anyone should play politics with the Confederate flag. It's a remimder of southern traditions. It symbolishes two societies of old: the positive paternalistic society and the negative segrgated society
Dave
