Yep, but it is not banned.

This concept of banning "ideas" is VERY scary.

Perhaps we should file a suit against eBay and Amazon for discrimination against Red Necks. "I wanted one for my wedding cake!"

Agreed, but what was interesting to me was that the swastika was co-opted by the SS - it had existed for centuries (if not millenia) in other cultures such as the Basques and Native Americans. A black swastika on a field of red is almost certainly to be associated with Nazi-ism, but a green, rounded swastika is Basque.

I have Southern roots, with four relatives who fought for the Confederacy (one rode with Gen. Jeb Stuart). The sad fact is that negotiations over ending slavery broke down during Buchanan's Presidency over how to compensate the slave owners. Congress couldn't agree on what they felt was an outrageous price, but the price asked would have been less than 1% of the cost of the Civil war, and over 600,000 young men would not have died.

Lincoln envisioned the Reconstruction as an act of revitalization for the South, reuniting them with the rest of the nation, but his assassination destroyed his vision. The bitter abolitionists who took over the Reconstruction saw it as a way to punish a rebellious population, and the South was pillaged economically, treated far more harshly than any other nation defeated by the U.S. That created an angry, resentful South that treated the African Americans as a surrogate for the abusive North.

Many of the various monuments and the tolerance for the rebel battle flag were a kind of backhanded excuse to soften Southern bitterness. President Wilson (racist to the core) actually admired the Ku Klux Klan, and stated he felt that "Birth of a Nation" (that portrayed the KKK as heroes) was the greatest film made.

The Civil war is history. Time to treat it as such, objectively, as symbolic of anachronistic thinking.

Check your history...the War for States Rights started in 1861, and the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in 1863. (Lincoln needed New York to get re-elected and that was what he used to buy the liberal vote.). Lincoln himself intended to deport the freed slaves to Liberia. In point of fact, only a minuscule percentage of the citizens of CSA were slave owners. So yes, most Southerners objected to the federal government imposing itself on what were to be considered matters that were the business of the individual states; tariffs being one of the most prominent. Slavery was incidental to the argument, but it became a powerful cause célèbre as the war dragged on. Just or unjust, it was not the proximate cause of the war.

I will be showing a rather hefty chainmaille bracelet with a dollar sign on it [the first one is gold on black] that you can order in my store.[ Marketplace Buttercups Jewel Box] The will be expensive, but custom made. I want someone to ask me to make gauntlets, 8" long.
somewhat more subtle than a flag, if you want it to be!

I remember that from the book, but have no idea if that made it to the movie. When you watch it, please let me know. I would actually buy that flag, too!