Former Dukes of Hazzard star and Georgia congressman Ben Jones is fuming over what he says is an attack on the Confederate flag.

In a lengthy, all-caps post on his personal Facebook page, Jones — an actor who served four years in the United States House of Representatives from 1989-93 — defended the flag's use, calling it a "symbol that represents the indomitable spirit of independence."

His post came on the heels of word that the consumer products division at Warner Bros., the studio behind The Dukes of Hazzard, will no longer license replicas or vehicles model kits based off the TV show that feature the Confederate flag.

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Jones' statements come on a week that has seen major companies like Amazon, eBay and Walmart ban sales of the Confederate flag and any similarly adorned merchandise following last week's deadly shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Debate surrounding the flag reached a fever pitch locally only hours after white supremacist Dylann Storm Roof allegedly shot nine residents at a historically black church.

On Monday, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced her intension to ask the state legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in the wake of event, saying that while the flag "stands for traditions that are noble" for some, others find it to be "a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past."

In his statement, Jones, who played Cooter Davenport on Dukes of Hazzard, put much of the backlash blame on "activists and politicians" who "are villifying southern culture and our heritage as being bigoted and racist."

"We know that this is not the case. And we know that in Hazzard County there was never any racism," he wrote.

Jones said he will continue to sell the flag in his Dukes of Hazzard-themed museums and shops, located in Nashville and Gatlinburg, Tennessee.