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In reply to the discussion: I want to thank the Ku Klux Klan... [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)rights movement it wasn't being flown every where like statehouse grounds in the south for southern heritage. Just mostly used by groups like KKK etc 1867 to 1960 and at civil war monuments . Also not on shirts belt buckles and truck bumpers
What say southerners old enough to remember or with a history background on the flag?
then from snopes is this..............
t is true that for several decades after the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag was not widely perceived as a negative symbol. Its use was largely limited to historical ceremonies associated with veterans events and war memorials; the flag did not become the symbol most prominently associated with the Confederacy until several decades after the Civil War ended, and it was not widely perceived as a politically polarizing symbol until it was appropriated by segregationist politicians and groups in the middle of the twentieth century.
However, the fact remains that the Confederate battle flag has long since become the pre-eminent symbol of the Confederacy and what it stood for, and across the span of several decades it has been co-opted by segregationist and white supremacist groups such as the Dixiecrats, the KKK, and the Aryan Nation. Certainly one can be a racist or a white supremacist without associating himself with Southern Pride or a Confederate battle flag, but for better or worse, no one group is any more authorized to use the Confederate battle flag as their symbol than another: the Confederate government and its military forces ceased to exist 150 years ago and therefore have no say or control over the usage of the Southern Cross.
Read more at http://m.snopes.com/2015/06/28/confederate-flag-history/#SLvre5rt02lW3ETL.99
I am up north and here it is used as a white persons flag without the heritage. Identifies sundown towns filled with haters etc
You will see Gadsen flag and Confederate flag together with nasty sayings about Obama on a pickup truck yes those kind of people but not on state grounds
So when did all this pride in the confederacy my heritage stuff start ? Never stopped after the civil war?or started up with civil rights and has progressed since then?
Was the flag always flown and used by Southern state governments as a symbol or did that start mid 20th century too?
Not looking for an argument just info. As for KKK true colors hate is their heritage
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