Looking at the many videos and pictures and news stories and instagram and twitter and Facebook etc. if you saw the crowd as a whole you didn't see a large percentage of Confederate flags, mostly they were Trump flags and American flags and a few other types. There were a few Confederate flags though.
One thing though is that the media made sure each Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol got a lot of media attention.
The negative publicity for the Confederacy has been immense due to the Confederate flag being flown by Trump supporters storming the Capitol Building as a mob.
A lot of people are really upset, angry, about what happened.
I think that the acceptance of organizations that promote the Confederacy is going to go to zero except for cranky racists.
A lot of people are realizing that honoring violent insurrectionists is really not a good idea.
There is still in existence a large fraction of the population that still supports Trump, but it will be a declining fraction as time goes on.
A Confederate monument, flag, name is now going to be identified with Trumpism. Every Confederate monument where ever they may still stand is now going to be a symbolic focus point in the conflict of Trumpers versus anti-Trumpers.
As I have said many times before as fewer and fewer Confederate items remain, those that do remain will seem more and more anomalous and unacceptable.
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