That's actually not the confederate flag. Its basically a soldiers flag used in battle and a symbol based on the Scottish independence movement. That flag was used by Lee's army and adopted by other regiments because of the actual confederate flag's resemblance to the American flag which caused friendly fire deaths on both sides during the heat and confusion of battle. It was mainly used by Southern veterans after the war to pay tribute to their fallen comrades and at funerals. It was not used by hate groups and segregationists until the 1930's and 1960's and was used deliberately as a recruiting tool.
My stance is that it shouldn't be in state houses, but US congress just quietly passed a law to ban confederate flags used one day out of the year on the headstones of dead confederate soldiers in confederate cemetaries. That's wrong and shows the slippery slope of whitewashing. And I think people have acted really poorly on both sides. We forget freed slaves were not welcome with open arms and treated like free Men in the north after the war and racism still exists in most of the country, outside the south.
Disney is well within their right to remove it. But remember this, the history doesn't tell the whole story. The vast majority of confederate soldiers were poor, and were drafted and conscripted to fightfight by an industry that was the Confederacy, run by the wealthy slave holders of the planter class and the top 1% of the southern population.
