In the fifties, and even into the sixties, it wasn't uncommon to hear "Dixie"--we sang it in school, in fact, but when the non-violent civil rights marches began, the segregationists began a vicious, angry, and violent response, which included prominent displays of that flag--

For those who have forgotten, the segregationists weren't just "Whistlin' Dixie"--there were murders, cross burnings, church bombings, nightsticks, firehoses and police dogs--and that flag was a short-hand message, "Don't mess with us, or else"--as explained above, they considered integration to be "messing" with them-