Georgia's new flag.
Posted on 08/04/2006 6:53:00 AM PDT by cowboyway
No mention of party....therefore must be a DUmocrat.
It said that it was a runoff and I assumed that they were both Rats and they didn't state Scott's race which I assumed to be black since they did mention his opponents race as white.
Either way, it's just another example of how the Confederate flag is used to imply racism.
No. Wrong.
The state adopted a new flag in 2003.
The state adopted a new flag in 2003.
Well, hell. I missed that. Did the old flag go down without a fight?
Huge fight. The Governor promised a state wide vote on which flag to run up the pole and then changed his mind during the legislative battle.
He is up for reelection this year and it doesnt seem to have hurt his chances.
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Which is worse.....being seen with a flag or being a member of the NAAALCP?
The first is construed as a racist symbol while the later is a defacto racist organization.
Also, what of the Dems' coveted "separation of church and state".
Double standard at work here.
Georgia's new flag.
Actually he's technically right. The new Georgia flag is based on the Confederate "First National" flag, which is what's correctly called the "Stars and Bars." It's got the same three red-white-red stripes and blue field as the First National; in place of the seven white stars on the Confederate flag, the Georgia state flag has the state seal.
What everybody calls the "Confederate flag"--the blue St. Andrews Cross with the thirteen white stars--was actually the Army of Northern Virginia's battle standard. That was a square banner. The rectangular version was the Confederate Navy's naval jack. The St. Andrews Cross design was used on the upper left-hand corner of the Confederacy's Second National (white field) and Third National (white field with a red vertical stripe down the extreme right-hand side) flags. But the cross itself was never a national flag, it was a battle flag.
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"In a runoff that could decide who controls the Clayton County Commission for the next two years, District 4 candidate Lee Scott has tried to tie his white opponent to the Confederate flag."
Sounds to me like the person who wrote this piece has a HUGE problem with their colors...
And the rectangular flag of the Army of Tennessee (the second largest Confederate army, IIRC) and the rectangular flag of a number of individual units in other armies.
a VERY SIMILAR battle-flag was carried by GA troops during the WBTS! that flag was designed by WILLIAM PORCHER MILES in 1861.
placed side by side, it would be difficult to tell which was the "new" vs. "old" GA flag. they are THAT similar.
free dixie,sw
I think this is the WBTS version
and a couple of other star-for-states version
Well, you and stand are right. You can hardly tell them apart.
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