Confederate Flag’s Support Unravels

Better 150 years late than never. In this sesquicentennial year of the Confederacy’s defeat, its battle banner is losing its sheen of acceptability, even for Southerners. In the wake of a racist massacre in Charleston’s oldest black church, Amazon, eBay, Etsy and Sears joined Wal-Mart in vowing to stop selling products featuring the Dixie flag. And South Carolina’s legislature has overwhelmingly agreed to debate its removal from Statehouse grounds later this summer. Meanwhile, politicians in Virginia and Mississippi are advocating dropping the symbol from license plates and the latter state’s flag.