"One thing that you UK-types may be starting to catch on to is that here in the US, we invest a lot more emotion in flags than is either normal or healthy."
Right on M Ted.
You wont catch many Brits being upset at the idea of some grumbling foreigners burning The Union Jack or effiges of our political figures.
I guess that it is a national trait, like the Iraqi shoe thing, huh?
And the only time you will see the St George flag flown is when there is an international football contest or similar in the offing.
The racist bigots of the BNP are trying to highjack that flag for their own purpose, along with Churchill, Spitfires and the Poppy.
If they were to fly the Confederate Flag, they would be ridiculed as Line Dancers!