Judas H Priest! When I was in college in the mid-60s, it was a national liberal arts college in the midwest, and we had southerners, along with students from all over this country. It was not uncommon for southerners to express their regional loyalty and pride by putting stars and bars on their room doors, or by saying "The South shall rise again". It was just good humor.
I sure hope these dumbasses attacking Allen over this stupid issue will be shown the door by the electorate.
We did something similar. While stationed in Germany in the mid-1960s, we sometimes paid the German hookers with Confederate bills.
A ten-dollar tip for services rendered [not always what you might think] was not infrequent. But you usually only got away with it once.