> They're just people who have a bit of a redneck streak, are into country music, hunting, etc. I know what you're saying, having grown up in the non-deep sout

> They're just people who have a bit of a redneck streak, are into country music, hunting, etc. I know what you're saying, having grown up in the non-deep south. However, I disagree with you. The flag makes a lot of people very uncomfortable (and for very good reasons). Placing one's sense of self-importance/rebellion above other's feelings of safety and belonging in a community that has historically enslaved and murdered them shows a profound lack of sympathy. Punk kids might just be ignorant of that reality, but grown adults should and do know better. For that reason, I absolutely believe any adult who flies the flag is being racist in their wilful neglect of the traumatizing history it rightfully represents, in the same sense that all holocaust deniers are anti-Semitic regardless of whether they would perpetuate another holocaust. Some things really are black and white. Flying a symbol of racial terrorism is one of them.