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Hello Mark. I do understand your viewpoint but in most cases the 1st amendment does not protect forms of speech that are hate speech, incite violence, or support terrorism. You could make a case that the Confederate Battle Flag does all three. This gray area is a matter of public opinion and in most cases is voted as no its not protected. Had the vendor been selling normal T-shirts and had been simply wearing Confederate memorabilia the public opinion may be swayed toward protected. I would say selling Confederate memorabilia would be in support of terrorism, especially with the back to back mass shootings last weekend and several threats that have been made publicly on Facebook that have led to two arrests this last week. The ideology of the Confederate era certainly does incite violence and selling it at a county fair is certainly in support of terrorism.