Hmmm.... Majority sees Confederate flag as Southern pride symbol, not racist

COL Charles Williams, for those of us who grew up and can remember seeing this flag so indelibly connected with the racial strife in the South during and immediately following the Civil Rights struggle, I think it is difficult to disassociate the flag with the violence of that era. However, there are now an entire couple of generations who's only association with this flag is that it was painted on the roof of the car in the Dukes of Hazard! Because racial tension in America has largely been localized and/or pushed under ground for most of the past 30 years, in the eyes of these two younger generations, the Confederate Flag has largely been marketed to symbolize Southern Pride. Stores like Dixie Outfitters have fueled this romanticization with the white, rural youth, and their stores in places like Branson, Panama City, and Myrtle Beach reap the rewards. I know you've mentioned being perplexed by this phenomena in your school, Sir, and I believe this explains the results of this survey. Combined with the fact that we gloss over the Civil Rights era in U.S. history classes, is it any wonder?

I work in the vicinity of Navy Yard, but thankfully was teleworking today. Many of us Feds are on a heightened alert due to bulletins and such coming out raising threat levels and warning us of possible situations this coming holiday. Many of us Feds are as a result of past events, really paranoid which can be both a good and a bad thing. We've had Active Shooter and terrorist threat training drilled into us recently. My work alert system went off twice warning me this morning. I'm just glad everyone is okay and nothing bad actually happened. The response was amazing..kudos to Capitol Police, DC Metro Police, Federal Protective Service, NCIS, and all of the other police agencies involved. They did their jobs well and responded appropriately.

With respect to the question at hand, I have learned that regardless of your political affiliation, that news outlets will skew stories and polls to make ratings. It's rather sadly really as I grew up in the era of Walter Cronkike and other news anchors who took the factual reporting of the news seriously instead of the media sensational crap like it is now.

I usually don't put stock in anything CNN reports.....why start with this.

They lost. Celebrate positives.

Betcha that poll didn't go the way they planed.

There are several Confederate flags. Regardless of which is displayed, this is what those flags represent according to the words of the Vice President of the Confederate StatesOf America:

In what’s now known as the “Cornerstone Speech,” Stephens told a Savannah, Ga., crowd in 1861 that “our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas [as those of slavery foes]; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
He went further: the battle over slavery “was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.”

It’s my opinion Confederate flags should only be displayed in museums and pictured in history books. They deserve no place of honor and should be considered symbols of hate. Alexander Stephens made it abundantly clear the Confederacy was established to support white supremacy and the subjugation of people of color. The same sentiments are expressed in the Articles if Secession of many of the Confederate States.

The majority of white people sees the confederate flag as southern pride. I see it as purely racist...

Check this out...
https://youtu.be/zDH5o1gUamU