Reply #3: As a southerner myself, I don't get the reaction. [View All]

Of course the flag is a bad symbol. But by taking Dean's comments to mean more than they were -- that some people in the south vote against their own interests out of ignorance or worse and that it would be great if they didn't do this anymore -- it is you that is lumping non racist southerners in with the yahoos.

There are plenty of negative stereotypes of southerners. One that gets too much play in the party is that we will only elect presidential candidates from the south. People who have so much misguided pride that they would do this to their own detriment are outdated, outmoded and ignorant (like those that have confederate flag stickers on their cars or as license plate frames).