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Originally Posted by morphius
Thats the advantage of States being able to chose a lot of what they do. If your state doesn't want to fly that flag, they don't have to, if their state sees it with a different meaning, then they can do what they want. Plus you have the freedom to not support that State by not buying products from there, and you are not forced to live there.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not neccessarily agreeing with the statement that "that flag needs to go away".
I just don't agree when someone says that flag isn't a symbol of racism, simply because it's roots were something esle (even though those roots were also largely racist). A symbol's meaning can shift, and whatever the original meaning of that flag was, it is widely regarded as a symbol of racsim, or at the very least a harkening for a time when racism was rampant.
Personally, I think it's a more a symbol of white trash than anything else. However noble southerners want to pretend it is, it's the flag of an army that lost, and is now the standard for trailer parks and Lynrd Skynrd.