Um, what?

...you'd know the expression is "cut and dried". But that's probably a bit much to expect of someone who types "Lol" in a post.

Well then why don't you take some ownership of the rest of the population of believers that there's nothing wrong with messages that flag represents while also acting as a proud caricature of our "thought pieces". I've been working in TX/LA/AL/MI for the past 10 years on ships, shoreside, and in the oil and gas industry. I know exactly what it means to 90% of the people I know with trucks that might as well be the one depicted above, with it tattooed on the forearm or plastered on their shirt. The same people that will drop N bombs in the mess room as soon as the last black guy that spent 4 hours cooking dinner for them and 160 other people leaves the room. That openly call our president any number of racial and or religious slurs, and that feel off of and are PROUD of their ignorance.

So let's just give you the benefit of the doubt and say you're a level headed person who's proud of the South or your home or whatever is making you defend this flag. That's allowed, but if you want to so vehemently preach about it's heritage, don't act so flabberghasted that a large number of your other supporters have gone out of their way to paint a very different image of the same thing you're trying to protect.

it's subjective to whatever historical facts you choose to ignore(?)

Here's a collection of the reasons for secession and civil war, in statements made by the leaders of the Confederacy. In it, you'll see such heartwarming, heritage-upholding bits as this:

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.

And this:

As a separate republic, Louisiana remembers too well the whisperings of European diplomacy for the abolition of slavery in the times of an­nexation not to be apprehensive of bolder demonstrations from the same quarter and the North in this country. The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.

In direct refutation of the revisionist not-all-about-slavery "heritage" arguments, a Richmond newspaper of the time said this:

‘The people of the South,’ says a contemporary, ‘are not fighting for slavery but for independence.’ Let us look into this matter. It is an easy task, we think, to show up this new-fangled heresy — a heresy calculated to do us no good, for it cannot deceive foreign statesmen nor peoples, nor mislead any one here nor in Yankeeland. . . Our doctrine is this: WE ARE FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE THAT OUR GREAT AND NECESSARY DOMESTIC INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY SHALL BE PRESERVED, and for the preservation of other institutions of which slavery is the groundwork.

The proud assholes and their ugly flag can return to their hog wallows and their fantasies about a time that never happened.

You're dreaming again.

You were asked about peer-reviewed information, and cited a blog.

You know the difference there, too, right?

This guy is putting stuff in his blog that he knows won't pass muster in academic peer criticism, so people like you will cite it as objective.