[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by jon1856

And the NAACP has gone after the Stars and Bars. And their leverage is generally tourism.

I think that the NAACP has usually gone after the Battle Flag (and state flags that include it -- the old Georgia flag and Mississippi), not the Stars and Bars.

Originally Posted by jon1856

Is it really wrong of me to be getting interested in you???

I think I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by Educatingblue

I am originally from SC and I absolutely love the state flag, but I live in NC now, so I thought I would post that one!!

The proportions are wrong on that one, though -- they match the old statutory discription proportion-wise; the legal description was changed a few decades ago to match the way the flag was made in actual practice. The proper proportions are like this:



Personally, though, I prefer the original (pre-1885) version of the flag:



I wish that in 1885 they had just changed the bottom date and otherwise left the flag alone.