The Confederate Flag is a racially charged message? My, how times, definitions and the culture have gone downhill, left side first.
I always thought the Confederate Flag was a sign of southern pride or that of rebellion. In the case of Michiganer’s hating their tyranical governor, I’d bet the true reason for that flag is rebellion, but the racist journalists know no different.
The CSA flag is a symbol in the South of a time when those that got sick of federal overreach and anti constitutionalism and had the cojones to actual put it on the line.
And people in the North could be just as every bit racist as Southerners were and did not like the blacks coming up and taking the jobs away from white labour.
“I always thought the Confederate Flag was a sign of southern pride or that of rebellion.”
It’s a sign against rebellion against government tyranny, and not just southern. I’ve seen more Confederate flags along the back roads of the hills of western New York state than I’ve ever seen here in Tennessee.
For some reason, people connect it only with the south and with pro-slavery. The people I know in NY with Confederate flags are descendants of extreme abolitionists, and hold those same values.
I am a former Michigander, living in North Carolina. Unless Yankees have become an official race, the Confederate Stars & Bars flag is not a "racially charged message".