Sorry for sticking you with those commies! :-)
I'm just making the case that it was those commies who were the genesis of the current war against the Confederate Battle Flag. Their loony fringe stance exploded into a national campaign in 1993 when Senator Moseley-Braun did her staged protest on the Senate floor, playing the race card, and it succeeded in turning half the GOP senators into quaking masses of cowardly jelly. The Rats knew they had a new issue to use as a tool to split the GOP, insult the GOP's largest electoral base (which is indeed the South), and set the left up for a future war against the U.S. Flag and the Founding Fathers.
I realize the subversive communists try to attach themselves to various causes in order to infiltrate and brainwash, in saying that does make the cause any less noble.