Reply #18: It's not even the Confederate flag! [View All]

One thing that gets up my craw is historical revisionism. It's one thing to have pride, and another to misrepresent, which our friends on the Right are so fond of doing. The so-called Confederate Flag they fly was never a flag of the CSA. It's a 20th century amalgamation of the Navy jack (rectangle with lighter blue) and the Army battle flag (square with darker blue). There were 3 Confederate flags during the war, the "Stars and Bars" (3 stripes with a blue field in the corner with stars), then 2 white flags with the square battle flag emblem in the corner, the second white flag having a red vertical stripe on the right so it wouldn't be confused with the white flag of truce. So if they want to honor "our ancestors" maybe they should learn what flag their ancestors actually flew.