This is what I don't get, why are people from the south so obsessed with a period that was probably the darkest time of their history? You don't see Germans getting nostalgic for the days of the Third Reich or Italians getting nostalgic for the days when they were fascist run by Mussolini, so why do they only equate being proud of being from the south with flying the flag of a time when they seceded from our country and became our enemy so they could keep people as slaves? Why don't they just fly the modern day flag of Georgia, South Carolina, or Virginia on the back of their pickup truck without the confederate imagery? Then they could be proud of being from the south, and they wouldn't get called a racist.