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Originally Posted by Kevin
It's still quite common, for example to see the Stars and Bars in Oklahoma.. and until just a few years ago, it still flew over the state capitol.
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Originally Posted by naraht
I do wonder how long someone could fly the original flag of the Confederacy before they'd be asked to take it down (the 7 or 9 or 11 or 13 stars in the Canton and the Red-White-Red 3 horizontal stripes).
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That original flag, not the flag that people typically think of as "the Confederate flag," is the Stars and Bars. What people think of as "the Confederate flag" is a variation on the battle flag.
While the Stars and Bars does carry some baggage purely by association with the Confederacy and what it stood for, it doesn't carry all the baggage that the battle flag does because it was the latter flag that was adopted and used extensively by the Klan, by white supremacists and by segragationists decades after the Civil War.
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