Why I fly the Confederate Flag:

A historicist's manifesto

For my friend Paul Fahrenheidt, a brilliant, beautiful writer, Yockeyan and a bonafide son of the South.

“They call me white trash 'cause my hair hangs long

My ragged pants got no buttons on

My teeth are black and my shoulders sag

But I fly — the Confederate flag”

• Eric Clapton, “White Trash”, from “White Mansions” (1978)