He literally scraped a Confederate Flag bumper sticker off his pickup truck when a Black Woman told him why it was offensive to her. Dude was capable of listening, empathy, and change, something we need alot more of in today's day and age.
Not really the point here. Also a lot of these people flying the flag is not racist to them. They don't fly it because most I've met don't associate it with that racism part even though they should. To them it's their version of an anarchy flag. They fly it to say they're rebels. People against the government. They pick and choose what it stands for but if the intention isn't to be racist, I don't see how it is.
I've seen plenty of terrible Facebook memes where they changed the words in Peanuts comics into political propaganda. If they can make Snoopy a racist then we can retcon Dale into a socialist.