With libtards, it is always symbolism over substance.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/sec-commissioner-threatens-mississippi-out-confederate-emblem
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey threatened to leave Mississippi out of hosting any conference championship events unless the state changes its flag, which currently includes a Confederate emblem. ...
Leaders at the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University have called on the state to change the flag. ...
State lawmakers have been building momentum to change the flag, but Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has pushed back saying it should be up to the voters.
In 2001, the decision to remove a Confederate symbol from the state flag was voted upon. Voters decided to keep the flag rather than replace it with one that did not include an emblem from the losers of the Civil War.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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