It was a standard of the Confederate States of America, which was at war with the United Staes of America in a conflict that cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. The CSA is a defeated enemy. I do not believe it is customary anywhere on the planet to raise the flag of an enemy unless you are about to burn it. Of course, the issue that is mentioned most often regarding the flag is slavery. Therefore, the rebel flag is a symbol of slavery.
Slavery is bad.
There is no good reason in the world that a symbol of slavery should still be flying in any form over our beautiful state. I am glad that the offending symbol will no longer be quite so obvious to those admiring our flag from afar. I find it deeply disturbing, though, that the hate that symbol embodies is still there to represent my state. Even more disturbing is that that is precisely why this new flag is truly representative of the people of Georgia.