I said "the world" - sadly, many Americans think their opinion is the only one that matters. The confederate flag is used in Germany by white supremacists who can't legally fly a sawatika. Ask a European what the flag means.
And in America, opinions have changed very fast recently in case you hadn't noticed.
The more you defend the flag the worse you look. Defending the flag in this moment is like defending segregation / arpartheid. Like it or not, the flag is now toxic.
The world includes people who have flown planes into the Twin Towers, people who have beheaded Americans simply because they could, people who burn and trample the U.S flag, have murdered thousands of US soldiers and smuggled drugs into our country so, I am sure I couldn't be bothered by their views.... I did however find several countries, including Italy, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Northern Ireland and the Ukraine that don't have issues with it.
Those polls I did mention from the US...were done in July 2015.
I have not defended the flag. Don't own one and don't care where it's flown! What I have defended are people who I know personally who wave it proudly, their right to protest and peacefully assemble, to have their grievances heard and the States Right to decide whether it stays or goes. I have also defended those same individuals from verbal attacks of racism, bigotry and hatred by a few folks who didn't get their way. If that makes me look bad, just imagine how it makes those of you who have used those terms look.