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ChristianBale · 3414 days ago · link · · parent · post: Democrats' Views on Confederate Flag Increasingly Negative. While 78% of Republicans view flag positively
It certainly has little to do with Southern Pride anymore. You see people proudly flying it all over the US. I think it's more about the distinctions that exist in the US--metropolitan vs. rural, progressive vs. regressive--and how these line up with other political divisions. The flag has come to represent "country pride", but the people that claim that sort of pride are also heavily Republican. It's just the same political, social, and geographic differences that have already existed in the US for the last 30 and 40 years attached to a new issue, and people are incapable of seeing eye-to-eye on this issue (just like every other political debate in the US).