Not going to change any minds, but I came across this googling "what is southern heritage." The article is short and sweet, and had a line that really stood out to me (in bold).
A lesson on 'Southern heritage' and the profound power of symbols - Baltimore Sun
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It is good to see the Confederate battle flag taken down from the statehouse grounds in South Carolina — an important step in its eventual, inevitable demise from our public life. But in many ways, the flag issue is a generational one. For people like my former colleague, the flag did not represent hatred of blacks as much as it stood for an earlier time that she remembered fondly, in no small part because white supremacy made her life easier.
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