If you have not heard Shelby Foote, the noted writer, comment on the Confederate flag, you owe it to yourself to listen to him for 2 minutes. Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9J8P6WfS7w
Foote correctly relates that the Confederate flag was never about racism. He says the Confederacy respected law and order above all else.
This may be the most interesting and most accurate brief discussion about the misunderstandings of the flag that I have ever heard.
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