That’s how the overwhelming number of southerners saw it. The Stars and Bars was just the leftists first foray into removing American culture and identity. If you told folks back in the 2000s that supported the removal, that in 2020 we’d be removing presidents, abolishinists, Catholic saints and Christopher Columbus they would say you are crazy. And here we are. The slippery slope is real. Give the Marxists an inch and they will take a country mile.