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VOLO, Illinois (AP) A northern Illinois auto museum has no plans to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the Dukes of Hazzard TV show with the Confederate battle flag painted on top of the vehicle.

Statues of Confederate generals and soldiers are destroyed across the country, NASCAR has banned the flag of its races, and the Confederate emblem is removed from the flag of the State of Mississippi.

But the Volo Auto Museum, about 80 kilometers northwest of Chicago, said famous general Lee from season one of the TV show was not going anywhere, according to a report in the Daily Herald from Arlington Heights.

We think the car is history and people love it, museum director Brian Grams told the newspaper. We have people of all races and nationalities who remember the TV show and didn’t take offense. It’s a piece of history and it’s in a museum.

Since the museum acquired in 2005 what it says is the last surviving 1969 magazine from the first season of the television program, Grams has stated that no one has complained. And the museum continued to hear people support the decision to keep the car as a push to rid the landscape of what is increasingly seen as a symbol of racism, Grams said.

Several people have given us positive feedback about leaving it exposed, Grams said, congratulating us for leaving it there and not having had an instinctive reaction to delete it like many places.

Grams says that General Lee is a piece of history and that the museum would not take it away any more than he would think of removing the Nazi memorabilia exhibited in parts of the military section of the museum.

If we were to receive complaints about the presence of General Lee, we had much worse objects in our military building, he said.

This story has been corrected to show that it was first reported by the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and not by the Northwest Herald of Crystal Lake.

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