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I think the dukes of hazard is a nice example, and would add Lynyrd Skynyrd as well.
Not everyone was fortunate to learn the full story about the Confederacy when growing up and, as the poster above you wrote, for a lot of people it was a rebelious symbol of the South. Which is the context why both the creators of DoH and Lynyrd Skynyrd used to identify with it.
We're growing further and further away from it, but there were families where great-gramps fought on the wrong side. Not because he was the Supreme Racist but because he happened to be born there at the wrong time. Those people grew up with a very different view of that flag than the one we have today.
So with that context, I personally have no problem playing with a car from DoH. I even enjoy watching a vid from an old live performance from Lynyrd Skynyrd more because I know how that flag got there and what it meant for them at that time. The band didn't believe or wanted to promote that black people should be slaves. It's part of innocent folklore understood by those who were there in that place and time. But alas, the nuance will fade away with time, and the images will remain.
Although I agree with you that the use of the confederate flag back in the day isn't necessarily proof that people doing so were dyed-in-the-wool racists, I think it's an overstatement to say with such confidence that their use was something other than that. As a Southerner myself, I'm well aware of the vast difference in scope between what some folks (especially older folks) think counts as racism and what it actually is in objective reality.
I wouldn't think that way about the Dukes of Hazzard: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/21/dukes-hazzard-actor-john-schneider-biden-execution