Confederate flag
The current 'Stars and Bars' (above) apparently isn't the original one, it's the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. Each star represents a traitor state. Eleven of them outright seceded: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina. The twelth and thirteenth stars are for Missouri and Kentucky (which both had dual governments, federal and traitor), not the slave-owning Union states of Delaware and Maryland. The controversy comes in with the use of the flag during the Civil Rights Movement period as a protest against integration. 'It's about heritage' is as much passive-aggressive bullshyt as 'it's about tariffs' being a passive-aggressive bullshyt reason for the War in the first place.
The tariffs ... were rooted in the slavery practices of the South.
The 'heritage' ... was rooted in making sure blacks knew their place, beneath whites.
Here's a neat little wiki map of the traitor states and the domino effect:
Tex-ass has the distinction of being low-class enough to allow slavery even after the end of the war. And that's why nikkas celebrate Juneteenth, because the feds had to come in and force Texas to end it after everyone else threw in the towel. And they still tried to be slick about it.
The Southern nikkas here can be more illuminating.