I don't know but toys and other merchandise from the show are now verboten. Craziness.
Yep. Now, I'm against the confederate flag on public grounds and think only idiots are proud to hang it (on their trucks, house, jackets, etc),
but there's a reason the damn car in the DUkes of Hazard has a confederate flag on it. The car is
called the General Lee. The General Lee was the name was the commander of the Army of the Confederacy. The horn blows the song
Dixie. And even beyond that, the inspiration for the General Lee was a real life bootlegging car called Traveller,
named after Robert E. Lee's real-life horse.
Wal-mart wasn't stopping sales of confederate flags before this.
Apple wasn't removing Civil War games from its store before this.
Governors in states where the flag has been flown for years are now coming out and calling for it to be removed when they didn't give a damn before.
This is what I mean when I say people didn't care until now. People/corporations with influence.
There wasn't as much of a public fervor about it with things like the Apple App store or Wal-Mart and what have you, but displays of the confederate flag on public grounds has been a loud and seminal debate for as long as I've been alive (I'm 31). You're right that nobody's gone as far to ban it or stop selling it, but people definitely cared about this issue for a long time... It's the reason that stores like WalMart even carried them to begin with, people care about this issue on both sides and that spurs sales.
You never saw WalMart or any other major retailers selling the battle flag of Massachusetts because nobody cares about debating any issues behind the Battle flag of Massachusetts:
Part of why the confederate flag is something that someone wants to buy in the first place is because of the controversy around it, and that controversy has been an impassioned public debate for decades, maybe more than a century.