I think we can simply use the polls used to elect public officials. Houston has over 4 million people, we had a lesbian mayor for multiple terms and now a black mayor, both democrats. We have very few people waving confederate flags around, I’ve only seen one flag in 5 years that was not in a media story but actually around me. Across the South, minority Democrats as well as Republicans are winning elections and we’re seeing confederate flags removed, not celebrated. The election polls are millions of people. And when a few people come out to protest with the confederate flags because they’re in the minority — the media hypes it up.
I understand that in majority white, rural parts of the South — there is a belief in this flag as a symbol of pride… but that is far from the majority of all Southerners.
