What it later came to represent? Well, the circle is now complete. The Southern Strategy of revisionist history has whitewashed every last bit of fact out of the GOP.

Jeb knows, or should know, that the Confederate flag represents the fact that the South engaged in insurrection against the Union over its demand to continue the institution of slavery. The South - the Confederacy - sought to preserve slavery.

Period.

That’s the primary reason they seceded from the Union and why slavery was among the top grievances of the Confederate states when they left the Union.

These right wing extremists continue to actively deny facts and history.

And they think no one will notice? Or not care?