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...Confederate flag was the battle flag for a revolt against the Constitution in the name of slavery. To present it, as Bridget Kerrigan '91 does, as a symbol of "Southern honor and grace and dignity," is perverse. To pretend that those who oppose the display of the Confederate flag are merely displaying a regional bias against Southerners is equally perverse...
Like race, region can be a basis for tension and controversy. In 1991, as an expression of Southern pride, Bridget L. Kerrigan '91 put a Confederate flag in her window, drawing protests from several campus groups...
...Kerrigan said at the time that she felt oppressed because her fellow students did not acknowledge Southern "honor and grace and dignity...
Regional pride and identity taken to an extreme, however, can cause tension. In 1991, students reacted to Kerrigan's flag with protests, eat-ins and a publicly-displayed Nazi swastika flag...
...Kerrigan countered that her flag was simply a demonstration of affection for the South...