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There are very people remaining claiming it's not time to take it down. People get defensive about it because most of them take pride in being from the south and that was the most applicable symbol to represent the whole region. It got even more popular with the Dukes of Hazzard. For people like that, they get defensive when people accuse them of racism when nothing could be further from the truth. They aren't thinking "racist flag" they're thinking "southern flag".

On the other hand, it means something all together different for a lot of other people and once people really got that through their heads, there was no question it needed to come down. Very few people are defending keeping it where it is at this point.