Slavery was really not the main issue of the Civil War as it is, the South were VERY noble, and had GREAT leaders. Just to few men and resources to win the war. Most of the people that display these flags really do not have any prejudicial fews on other "races." They just fly them because they are proud they are from the South, it only represents bigotry to the ignorant who for some reason cant get over that African-Americans were slaves, at some point in time everyone one of our ancestors were slaves of someone, people just need to get over it. Slavery is RARELY about "race," it is about debt most often, or crime, as opposed to getting executed they become slaves, and it is a part of war.