I just read an article on Houston Chronicle which outlines some of the arguments heard around here and, frankly, around the country. In my home state of Michigan, the Confederate flag was sometimes seen as representative of southern roots (rhymes with "foots") and down home values. My home town's nickname was and probably still is "Hazeltucky" because of the number of folks who settled there from the hollers and hilltops of the Great Smoky Mountains region. However, that's not what the flag stands for. To them, maybe. But not to itself, not to Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard who first used it as a battle flag, and certainly not to those dusty skeletons who fought under and for it. This is truly a misunderstood and misrepresented item from our past. Please read and share this article!
http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/5-jerks-that-show-up-in-the-comments-in-confederate-flag-news-stories-7541331
