Sorry, I was there and concert going in the 1970s - I could have gone to their shows and chose not to. I did however see the Clash in 1979, which should give you an indication of where my politics were at.

Everyone knew they were racist good ol' boys even at the time. Here are pictures of the band: can you see even one non-white person in any picture?

What other possible meaning is there to fly the Confederate flag other than to exhibit support for the Confederacy - a group of states formed to continue slavery?

If you fly a Nazi flag, no one thinks, "Oh, maybe he's just into German history."

Everyone knew the Confederate flag was a symbol of slavery. Mad Magazine was making fun of it for exactly that before Lynyrd Skynyrd was even founded.

Consider at this time, the South was putting up statues of famous Confederate leaders - that is, famous traitors to America - all over the south.

The fact is that a lot of people liked the racism part.

Fighting under this banner, the South literally became traitors to their country just so they could own other humans as slaves.

Do you think even one person who flies that flag was ignorant of the existence of the Civil War, and what it was about?

Oh, right, in the South it's called "The War of Northern Aggression" which doesn't really seem to indicate that they understood that perhaps owning humans that you could work, abuse, rape and even kill, is wrong.

Your argument seems to be, "People simply had no idea what the flag meant or any of its history", and as I said, that's just false to the fact..

The only reason to fly the Confederate flag is to show respect for the Confederates, proud slavers who were willing to murder their fellow Americans to keep holding slaves.