It’s a waste of time to argue with GOP establishmentarians who say “Confederates are evil because they were Democrats.” Anyone who thinks that there’s an ideological connection between Jefferson Davis and Barack Obama is either monumentally stupid, or else is just using party affiliation as a flimsy cover for their sympathy with the liberals’ PC agenda. I suspect the latter - there are plenty of Republicans who drink the politically correct Kool Aid on issues of race and culture.
Hannity certainly does that. I enjoy hearing him champion the 65 civil rights act while boasting he’s a Reagan Republican. Reagan of course opposed that bill as did Goldwater, IIRC as a gross power grab by the national government that would crush individual freedoms. It probably turned out worse than either one of them predicted. They oughta rename some of the agencies it created the Ministry of Equality and Freedom etc in honor of George Orwell.
It's bad enough the Democrats are trying to tag us with their racist past, without having you accepting it on our behalf.
Accept their legacy on your own behalf, but leave me out of it.