At this point the Trumpublican WHITE Nationalist Identity has gone national. The Confederate flag is a symbol of that identity, it's everywhere now.
This is about race. That's it, nothing else.
2 out of 3 Whites votes Trumpublican and that's about 42-44% of the population.
That's our politics in a nutshell and has been since 72' when Nixon buried McGovern by a 23% margin. Between 1968-2008 the Republicans held the Presidency 28 out of 40 years. If it hadn't been for Watergate and Ross Perot it would have been a clean sweep.
No Democratic Candidate since LBJ has won a majority of the White vote in America. Not one.
But, they aren't racists. They swear.