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I am always curious of this myself. My Mom's family is from Kentucky, and Dad's from Arkansas, so that's where our roots to the south lie. My brother and sister are twins, named Robert Lee and Dixie. There are flags, uniforms, swords, etc that saw battle hanging in my parents' house. My whole life, they've always had a strong connection to those roots.
It'd be interesting to know whether they are being bought by Yankees who fancy a bit of "Confederate chic", or by Southerners who live in the North and suddenly find that up they're they feel more Southern than ever they did 'at home'. I've known fellow Irish who suddenly feel the need to fly a flag when they go abroad when they could barely describe the same flag while they lived at home. Personally, I think there's something to be said for the notion that people who enjoy waving flags rather too much probably shouldn't be allowed to own one, but that's a whole nother can o' worms.
Always sorta surprised me you don't see more of the CSA flags these days. I can certainly see why it was replaced by the battle flag for those in the line of combat, but the subtle difference between the two nowadays I can see having something of an appeal. I find the Confederate imagery fascinating, myself, not least because of the conflicting views as to what it represents these days (some of which is revisionism, of course, though the reality is - irony of ironies - much more grey than either camp would have one believe, IMO).
