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**Shark&Nike** · 10-11-2006, 05:52 AM

What we think of as the traditional Confederate flag was actually a modification of the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was basically the red and blue cross with stars you see in the 2nd and 3rd Confederate national flags. The 1st national flag was too hard to distinguish from the Union flag. In the latter part of the 19th Century, Confederate veterans began organizing erunions and flew the what is today called the Confederate flag. When the Klan was reborn in1915, they adopted this flag. In the 1950s, states began flying these flags to symbolize their opposition to Federal attempts at desegragation. In the 1970s, it became associated with Southern outlaw culture, and then white outlaw culture in general. It is not, and has never been, a symbol of Southern culture generally.

10-11-2006, 05:52 AM	#16
Shark&Nike Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 463 Senior Member	What we think of as the traditional Confederate flag was actually a modification of the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was basically the red and blue cross with stars you see in the 2nd and 3rd Confederate national flags. The 1st national flag was too hard to distinguish from the Union flag. In the latter part of the 19th Century, Confederate veterans began organizing erunions and flew the what is today called the Confederate flag. When the Klan was reborn in1915, they adopted this flag. In the 1950s, states began flying these flags to symbolize their opposition to Federal attempts at desegragation. In the 1970s, it became associated with Southern outlaw culture, and then white outlaw culture in general. It is not, and has never been, a symbol of Southern culture generally.
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