A little history lesson: the south seceded from the union to form their own country. The confederate states of America. That country flew their own flag. The Confederate flag. It was not used as a symbol of racism. It is interpreted today as that. But to this day the majority of the south does NOT see this flag that way. Civil war was not about Slavery alone.
FACTS! That flag is a symbol of the south that most down there respect it's NOT a symbol of slavery.