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If it's the case that some people are flying that flag who genuinely do not know the recent history of it (it was introduced in the late 1940s by the Dixiecrat party to symbolize their opposition to integration and the civil rights movement), then informing them of that history would surely cause them to immediately take it down.

One could even argue that it's at best negligent to fly a flag without knowing the most basic history of its symbolism, but if that's really what's going on, then surely it wouldn't be hard to educate all these people who are unintentionally flying the flag.



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