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Originally Posted by PhrozenGod01
As far as Black families, I haven't seen it, but then again I haven't been everywhere down south.
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I have seen it; in fact, I saw a Black man carrying a full-sized Battle Flag down the street just last week. I have no idea why he was carrying it -- he seemed to be walking to his car from somewhere.
Just goes to show how complex an issue this can be.
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Originally Posted by Kevlaw281
That being said you can still see plenty of other flags with meaning flying high at the cook-off most notably Bonnie Blue and the Come And Take It flag.
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As an aside, and for what's its worth, the Bonnie Blue flag was never an official Confederate flag. It was raised in Mississippi to declare succession. The single star was a symbol of state sovereignty.
The Bonnie Blue Flag originated with the brief Republic of West Florida (comprising territory in parts of what is now Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) in the early 1800s, and it influenced the Lone Star flag of Texas and the Bear flag of California (and perhaps the flag of North Carolina as well). The popularity of the flag during the Civil War was largely the result of the song
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" ("We Are a Band of Brothers"), written to commemorate the raising of the flag in Jackson when Mississippi succeded.
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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
An aside, but as memory serves, this is the only of the 50 state flags that is a pennant.
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Give that dog a bone! (Although technically the notch in the fly end makes it a burgee, not a pennant.)